Recently published Ornithological Works. 201 
50. Sharpe and Wyatt on the Hirundinidse. 
[A Monograph, of the Hirundinidse, or Family of Swallows. By R. 
Bowdler Sharpe and Claude W. Wyatt. Part II. December, 1885. 
London : Sotheran & Co.] 
The second number of this Monograph, which appears to 
be quite up to the standard of its predecessor, contains 
figures and descriptions of Hirundo senegalensis , H. cethiopica, 
H. domicella , Chelidon dasypus, Cotile fuligula; a figure 
of the young of Chelidon urbica ; and the description only 
of Hirundo gordoni , which is regarded as merely a small race 
and West-African representative of ff. semirufa. 
51. Smithsonian Report for 1883. 
TAnnual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institu¬ 
tion, showing the Operations, Expenditures, and Condition of the Insti¬ 
tution for the year 1883. Washington : 1885.] 
The f Report of the Smithsonian Institution for 1883 ’ 
contains (pp. 220-225) Mr. Ridgway's Report on the De¬ 
partment of Birds of the National Museum of the U.S. The 
total number of specimens entered on the Museum Register 
during that year was 3631. Among these most important 
accessions are specified. The account of the “ explorations ” 
(p. 11 et seq.) will also be read with interest, as likewise 
Prof. GilUs record of the progress of Zoology in 1883. It 
seems a great pity that, owing, we believe, to official exigen¬ 
cies, the Smithsonian Reports cannot be rendered available 
to the world in general at an earlier date. Thus we do not 
receive the Report for 1883 until the end of 1885. 
52. Stejneger on the Birds of the Commander Islands and 
Kamtschatka. 
■ [Results of Ornithological Explorations in the Commander Islands and 
in Kamtschatka. By Leonhard Stejneger. Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. no. 29. 
1885.] 
This is the official report of Mr. StejnegePs ornithological 
observations in the Commander Islands and Kamtschatka, 
during his expedition of 1882-83, of which we have already 
spoken (see f Ibis/ 1885, p. 116). It contains (1) a review of 
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