Recently published Ornithological Works. 521 
following* tlie example of our worthy President, Lord Lilford, 
who has recently had a decoy constructed for him near 
Oundle, in Northamptonshire, by T. G. Skelton, one of the 
celebrated decoy-making family. We heartily recommend 
the book, and hope it will be productive of good. 
90. Radde’s Fauna and Flora of the South-western Caspian 
District . 
[Die Fauna und Flora des siidwestlichen Caspi-gebietes: wissenschaft- 
liche Beitrage zu den Reisen an der Persisch-Russischen Grenze. Von 
Dr. Gustav Radde. Leipzig: Brockliaus, 1886. 1 vol. 8vo. 426 pp.] 
Dr. Radde has, perhaps wisely, issued in a separate volume 
the systematic account of the zoological and botanical results 
of his travels in the district adjoining the south-western por¬ 
tions of the Caspian Sea, which border on the present frontier 
between Russia and Persia. He had himself prepared the 
portion relating to the Mammals, Birds, and Fishes of this 
little-known region, besides the Botany, having obtained 
the assistance of other well-known savants for the various 
groups of Arthrozoa and Mollusca. As regards the Birds, 
this part of the subject has been recently treated of very 
fully in the author’s c Ornis Caucasica/ published at Cassel 
in 1884. In the present work we have therefore only a 
list of the species as yet known to occur in “ Talysch,” as 
this district is called, with remarks on their horizontal and 
vertical distribution. The nomenclature and arrangement 
of the f Ornis Caucasica ’ are adhered to. The species 
included in the list are 312, and 40 “varieties/’ i. e. sub¬ 
species. The f Ornis Caucasica ’ gave us 370 species and 66 
varieties. We observe that the Porphyrio of the Caspian is 
still called (c veterum } S. G. Gmelin,” although it has been 
shown that that ancient naturalist never made such a name, 
and, moreover, that the species in question is the Indian 
P. poliocephalus ( cf. Ibis, 1885, p. 111). 
91. Reyes on the Birds of Spain and Portugal. 
[Catalogo de las Aves de Espana, Portugal 6 Mas Baleares. Por Don 
