Recently published Ornithological Works. 483 



73. Salvadori on Trerolsema leclancheri, Bp. 



[Intorno alia Trerolcema Icdancheri, Bp., Nota. Atti R. Ac. Sci. Tor. 

 xiii. pp. 425-428.] 



Having examined the type of Trerolcema leclancheri, Bp, 

 (Mus. Paris), said to be from New Guinea^ Salvadori pro- 

 claims its identity with Leucotreron gironieri of the Philip- 

 pines. Mr. Elhot (P.Z S. 1878, p. 568) has come to the 

 same conclusion. 



74. Salvadori on a new Hermotimia. 



[Intorno agl' individui del genere Hermotimia dell' Isola del Duca di 

 York. Atti R. Ac. Sci. Tor. xiii. p. 530.] 



Cinnyris aspasia (Less.) of Shelley and Sclater, from Duke- 

 of-York Island, is separated as Hermotimia corinna. In our 

 opinion Dr. Salvadori goes rather too far in making so many 

 different species of this form of Sun-bird. 



75. Salvadori on new Species o/Calornis and Carpophaga. 



[Due nuove specie di uccelli dei generi Calornis e Carpophaga della sotto- 

 regione Papuana. Atti R. Ac. Sci. Tor. xiii. p. 635.] 



Calornis, sp. inc., of Sclater (P. Z. S. 1877, p. 554), from 

 the Admiralty Islands, is characterized as C. purpureiceps, 

 and Carpophaga rufigula is described (being the representative 

 in the Solomon Islands (San Cristoval) of C. rubracera of 

 New Ireland) from a specimen in the British Museum, ob- 

 tained by MacGillivray. 



7Q. Wallace's ' Tropical Nature.' 



[Tropical Nature, and other Essays. By Alfred R. Wallace. 8vo, 

 pp. 356. London : 1878. Macmillan & Co.] 



Mr. Wallace's essays on tropical nature, with which his 

 twelve years' experience of the eastern and western equatorial 

 zones have rendered him so familiar, will be read with great 

 interest by every naturalist. The opening chapter is worthy 

 of special notice, as giving an explanation of the causes of 

 the wonderful uniformity of the climate of the tropics in 

 popular language, and in a manner we have not seen suc- 

 cessfully accomplished elsewhere. Hardly of less importance 

 are the second and third essays on the peculiarities of the 



