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47. Menzbier on a new Green Woodpecker. 



[Notiz iiber eiueu ueuen Griinspecht, Oecinus jlavirostris, n. sp. Von 

 Dr. M. Menzbier. Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Moscou, 1886, no. 2.] 



The new species is allied to G. viridis, but is distinguished 

 by its yellow bill and other particulars. Two specimens 

 ( (J and ? ) were obtained by M. Zaroudno'i in Trauscaspia, on 

 the middle course of the Murghab. 



48. ' Ornis/ Vol. I. No. 4, Vol. II. Nos. 1-3. 



[Oi'nis: Internationale Zeitschrift fiir die ^esaromte Ornitbologie. 

 Herausgegeben von Dr. R. Blasius und Dr. G. v. Hayek. I. Jabrg. 4 

 Heft., II. Jabrg. 1, 2, und 3 Heft. Wien.] 



In the numbers of our contemporary which have reached 

 us since our last notice C^Ibis^ 1886^ p. 519), the first con- 

 tains the conclusion of Messrs. K. v. Dalla Torre and V. v. 

 Tschusi's long report on ornithological observations in 

 Austria and Hungary for 1883^ the total number of species 

 amounting to 314. Short papers from various corre- 

 spondents are followed by some interesting notes on the 

 ornithology of Friesland and the portion of Holland adjacent 

 to the Zuider Zee^ by M. Herman Albarda of Leeuwarden, 

 comprising remarks on 202 species. A painfully suggestive 

 feature is the total omission of the Spoon bill^ a bird which 

 only a very few years ago bred in colonies near Amsterdam^ 

 but for which the Editors of ' The Ibis ' sought in vain last 

 May^ its old haunts having been drained. 



To judge from the report of the permanent Committee in 

 the opening Part for 1886^ plenty of energy is shown in 

 inviting cooperation^ and responses have been received from 

 almost all the regions of the earth. Prof. Liitken sends his 

 second report (1885) on 157 species of Danish Birds, and 

 our valued coadjutor Herr Gatke does the same for Heligo- 

 land ; but the latter we have already noticed in its English 

 version {' Ibis/ 1886^ p. 516). A very important paper is the 

 translation from the Swedish original (Stockholm Akad. CEf- 

 versigt, 1871) of Herr Meves''s narrative of his expedition to 

 North-western Russia in the summer of 1869, with notes by 



