116 Recent Ornithological Publications. 



landica from New Zealand, Mecistura swinhoii from Shanghai, 

 Volvocivora schierbrandi from Borneo, Carpo'phaga frauenfeldi 

 from Stewart Island, and Aramides zelebori from Brazil. An 

 interesting fact ascertained by the Novara Expedition is the true 

 locality of the beautiful Chalcopsitta rubiginosa, which turns out 

 to be the island of Puynipet, one of the Caroline group, a little 

 to the north of New Guinea. We hardly know whether this 

 bird is to be accounted one of the " Crimson " Lories ; but if so, 

 Mr. Wallace will have to enlarge the borders of the area he 

 assigned to them. 



* The Birds of Cilli ' are treated of in a paper contributed by 

 Herr Eduard Seidensacher to the Natural- Science Union of 

 Steiermark (Styria) in 1864*. Two hundred and four species 

 (to which two others are added in manuscript, in the separately 

 printed copy with which the author has favoured us) are enume- 

 rated as occurring in the district. None of them are of any 

 remarkable rarity; but the notes appended seem to be carefully 

 drawn up, and the whole article contains much useful informa- 

 tion respecting this (ornithologically speaking) little-known 

 region. Strix uralensis is supposed by Herr Seidensacher to 

 breed in Styria, though he has not hitherto been able to ascertain 

 the fact positively. 



3. Dutch. 

 A treatise on the Episternal Apparatus of Birds has been 

 contributed by Heer P. Harting to the publications of the 

 Utrecht Society of Arts and Sciences f- We are aware that the 

 word episternum has been used by writers in several senses ; that 

 attached to it by our author seems to show, if we understand 

 him rightly, that he means to comprehend under the designation 

 of " episternal apparatus " all the membranous appendages which 

 connect the coracoids and furcula with the sternum, and which are 



* Die Vogel von Cilli. Separat-Abdruck aus den Mittheilungen des 

 naturwissenschaftlichen Verein fiir Steiermark. Heft ii. 1864. 



t^ L'appareil episternal des Oiseaux. Natuurkundige Verhandelingen 

 nitgegeven door het provincial Utrechtsch Genootschap van Kunsten en 

 Wetenschappen. Nieuwe Reeks. Eerste Deel, derde stuk. Utrecht : 1864. 

 (London, Williams and Norgate.) 



