Recently published Ornithological Works. 517 
intorno alle migrazioni ed alia nidificazione, compilato dal Dottore Enrico 
Hillyer Giglioli. 8vo. Firenze: 1886.] 
This very important work will prove invaluable to any one 
who is studying the Birds of Europe, containing as it does 
the most complete and accurate list which has yet appeared 
of the species found in Italy and the neighbouring islands, 
inclusive of Malta. Especially useful are the remarks upon 
geographical distribution and breeding-limits. Amongst 
the rarities we note Turdus pallasi, Oreocincla dauma 3 
Nemura cyanura, Sylvia nana , Hypolais olivetorum and 
H. opaca , Accentor montanellus, Chelidon cashmiriensis , 
Cotile obsoleta, Syrnium uralense } Aquila nipalensis, Bubulcus 
coromandus, Hydrornia alleni, and AEgialitis geoffroyi, as well 
as some sea-birds which seldom enter the Mediterranean. By 
the way, we have recently examined specimens of the Indian 
Buff-backed Heron ( B . coromandus) from Lenkoran, on the 
Caspian. We are glad also to see that Prof. Giglioli has suc¬ 
ceeded in unearthing the fast-decaying specimen of Houbara 
undulata which Saunders asserted many years ago to be in the 
Syracuse Museum, but which has since lain there unobserved, 
and has even had its very existence doubted. At the end of 
the volume are lists of residents and migrants, calendars of 
breeding, &c. We are glad to see that at the suggestion of 
Prof. Giglioli the Italian Government has established an Orni¬ 
thological Bureau dependent upon the Board of Agriculture, 
and at the end of the year a Beport will be issued of the results 
of the observations collected by naturalists and also by keepers 
of lighthouses and semaphore stations. But let it not be for¬ 
gotten that, although still without one penny of Government 
aid, it was a Committee of British ornithologists who inam 
gurated the movement now so well imitated in America and 
elsewhere. 
84. Meyer on Birds from Emperor-William’s-Land. 
[Notiz liber eine Vogelsammlung von Kaiser Wilhelms Land (Nordost- 
Neu Guinea) und Nachbarschaft von A. B. Meyer. - Zeitsch. f. d. ges. 
Ornithol. 1886, Heft 1.] 
Dr. A. B. Meyer treats of the first collection of birds 
ser. v.— vol. iv. 2o 
