324 Count T. Salvadori on the Eighth and Ninth 



The insular forius P. jobiensis and P. miosnomensis ai*e 

 united with P. (jriseiceps (p. 215), although sufficiently 

 distinct. I must also protest against calling the Musci- 

 trea cyanea, Hume (p. 22-1), P. cyanea, there being already 

 a Pachycephala cyanea of mine, especially as Mr. Gadow 

 could have chosen for Mr. Hume^s species one of the two 

 other names belonging to it. I do not see much use in 

 having a figure (pi. ix.) of Pachycephala poliosoma, as this 

 species has already been figured in the ' Birds of New 

 Guinea/ pt. xiii. Mr. Gadow could have bestowed one of 

 his plates on a species not yet figured. 



In concluding my remarks on Mr. Gadow's eighth volume 

 of the Catalogue, I may say that I have failed to find in it 

 any mention of the following species : — 



1st. Lanius dorsalis, Cab. Journ. f. Orn. 1878, pp. 205, 

 225, which most likely is the same as my Lanius antinorii, 

 and which has already been mentioned several times (Ibis, 

 1879, pp. 104, 354; Journ. f. Orn. 1879, p. 213; Oust. Note 

 s. 1. Ois. ComaUs, p. 10, 1882). 



2nd. Lanius gubernator , Hartl. Orn. Centralbl. 1882, p. 91 ; 

 id. Journ. f. Orn. 1882, pp. 323, 350, Taf. i. f. 2. 



3rd. Lanius pyrrhostictus, Ilolub et Pelz. Beitr. Orn. Sud- 

 afr. p. 97, Taf. ii. (1882) ; Pelz. Verb, zool.-bot. Gesellsch. 

 Wien, 1882, p. 505 ; Hartl. Abb. naturw. Ver. Brem. 1882, 

 p. 224. 



The last is, most likely, only the female of Lanius col- 

 laris. 



These omissions (and perhaps there may be others Avhich 

 now escape me) show clearly that Mr. Gadow is not very well 

 acquainted with ornithological literature. 



The second volume by Mr. Gadow contains the Nectari- 

 niidse and the Meliphagidse ; but I am sorry to say that in 

 treating of the former he has only succeeded in spoiling 

 the good work done by Capt. Shelley in his excellentMono- 

 graph of that family, and that as regards the Meliphagidae, 

 Mr. Gadow has done as much as he could to reduce them 

 to a very sad state of confusion, having destroyed the little 

 order I tried to introduce among them while treating in my 



