522 Recently published Ornithological Works. 
Ventura de los Reyes y Prosper. Anales de la Soc. Esp. de Hist. Nat. 
tom. xy. 1886. Madrid : 1886.] 
This is a very useful compilation, giving a list of 408 
species found in or ascribed to the Peninsula, with remarks 
upon their geographical distribution. The author appears 
to be well acquainted with the writings of his compatriots, as 
well as with those of Lord Lilford, Col. Irby, and Howard 
Saunders, but we fear that he does not understand English 
perfectly ; and he is evidently unacquainted with Saunderses 
later and fuller Catalogue of the Birds of Southern Spain, in 
French, published in the Bulletin de la Societe Zoologique de 
France, in 1876-77. Unfortunately Dr. Reyes does not draw 
any critical distinctions between the relative values of the 
authorities cited by him, one of whom (Vayreda) we consider 
to be almost valueless, whilst some others, although useful in 
their time, are now out of date. The treatise is, however, by far 
the best of its kind that has as yet appeared in the Spanish 
language, and we are much pleased to see such good work in 
the Peninsula. 
92. Snelleman on the Birds of Sumatra. 
[Midden Sumatra. Reizen in Onderzoekingen der Sumatra-Expeditie, 
uitgerust door het aardrijkskundig Genootsckap, 1877-79, beschreven 
door de Leden der Expeditie, onder toezicbt van Prof. P. J. Veth. 
Royal 8vo. Leiden, 1881. Band iv. Natuurlijke Historie. Zorgideerin 
en Vogels, door Joh. F. Snelleman.] 
Mr. Snelleman gives a list of about 95 species of birds of 
which examples were obtained by Prof. Veth during his 
expedition into the interior of Sumatra in 1877-79. Three 
of these species were originally supposed to be new * and 
were described by Schlegel as Perdix vethi, Arachnothera 
concolor, and Rhipidura vidua. These are now identified with 
Peloperdix rubrirostris , Salvad., Arachnothera affinis, Horsf., 
var. modest a, Eyton, and Rhipidura atrata, Salvad., all three 
being figured; Treron massica, Schlegel, is also figured. 
93-94. Sousa on African Birds. 
[Lista das aves colligidas em Africa de 1884 a 1885, pelos Srs. Capello 
e Ivens. Por Jose Augusto de Sousa. Jorn. d. Sci. Math., Phys. e Natur. 
Lisboa, 1886, No. xlii. 
