Recently published Ornithological Works. 
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74. Sclater on the Ccerebidce, Tanagrida, and Icteridce. 
[Catalogue of the Passeriformes, or Perching Birds, in the Collection 
of the British Museum. Fringilliformes : Part II., containing the Families 
Ccerebidae, Tanagridse, and Icteridse. By Philip Lutley Sclater. London : 
1886. 431 pp., 18 coloured plates.] 
The eleventh volume of the British Museum Catalogue of 
Birds is devoted to the Coerebidse. Tanagridse, and Icteridse. 
The species of Coerebidse recognized are 70. Of these 63 
are represented in the Collection by 672 specimens, 15 of 
which are types. Thus only 7 species of Coerebidse have no 
representatives in the National Collection. 
The Tanagridse are a much more numerous family, no less 
than 377 species being acknowledged as valid in the present 
volume. Only 20 of this number have no representatives in 
the Collection. The remaining 357 are very fully represented 
by 3413 specimens, of which 74 are actual types or typical 
specimens. 
Of the remaining family, Icteridse, the number of valid 
species accepted in the present work is 128. Of these 3 
only are unrepresented in the National series, while the 
remaining 125 species are well represented by a fine series 
of 1409 specimens, amongst which are 12 types of species. 
Putting the three families together, it will be found that 
the total number of species treated of in the present volume 
is 575, represented in the British Museum Collection by 
5494 specimens, referable to 545 species, leaving only 30 
species deficient to the Collection, whilst the series of speci¬ 
mens are in most cases very extensive, and serve admirably 
to show the geographical distribution of each species. 
The subjoined list may be useful, as showing the progress 
made with this important work :— 
Species 
in 
Speci¬ 
known. 
B.M. 
mens. 
I. 1874. 
Accipitres. 
R. B. Sharpe. 
377 
326 
2466 
II. 1875. 
Striges. 
R. B. Sharpe. 
190 
153 
1090 
III. 1877. 
Coliomorphse. 
R. B. Sharpe. 
367 
315 
2014 
IV. 1879. 
Cichlomorphse, pt. 
i. R. B. Sharpe. 
539 
443 
2520 
V. 1881. 
Cichlomorphse, pt. 
ii. H. Seebohm. 
344 
303 
2560 
VI. 1881. 
Cichlomorphse, pt. 
iii. R. B. Sharpe. 
407 
315 
1508 
VII. 1883. 
Cichlomorphse, pt. 
iv. R. B. Sharpe. 
687 
548 
3942 
Carried forward 
2911 
2403 
16,100 
