342 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



Eclectus riedeli. Piezorhynclius vidua. 



Megalurus albolimbatus. squamulatus. 



Gerygone dorsalis. Heteranax mundus. 



Rhipidura opistheryihra. Artamides unimodus. 



Pachyceplialopsis fortis. Oiiolus decipiens. 



Poecilodryas bimaculata. Philemon plumigenis. 

 Piezorhynchus castus. 



Many of the species figured are, it will be observed, from 

 specimens collected during Mr. H. O. Forbes's recent expe- 

 dition to the Tenimber Islands. 



Mr. Sharpe thinks it possible that the name Eclectus 

 riedeli " will be found to have been superseded by Eclectus 

 ivestermanni of Bonaparte." But we may point out that 

 the type of Psittacodis westermanai, Bp., is in the Leyden 

 Museum, and that it is not certain that the specimen in the 

 British Museum to which Mr. Sharpe refers has been 

 correctly attributed to Eclectus westermanni. Bonaparte 

 (P. Z. S. 1850, p. 26) expressly characterizes the latter as 

 " iliis concoloribus." 



A new generic name {Heteranax) is proposed for Monarcha 

 mundus^ Sclater. 



52. Hartlaiib on new African Birds. 



[Diaimosen ciniger ueuer Vogel aus dem ostlichaquatorialen Africa. 

 Vou Dr. G. Ilartlaub. Journ. f. Oni., Oct. 188-3.] 



Four new species, discovered by Dr. Emin Bey in Eastern 

 Equatorial Africa, are shortly diagnosed as Ptyrticus turdinus, 

 Crateropus tenebrosus, Xenocichla orientalis, and Astrilda 

 nonnula. Ptyrticus is a new genus (of what family ?) . 



53. Holmberg on the Birds of the Sierra del Tandil. 



[Resultados cientificos, especialmeute zoologicos y botanicos, de los 

 tres viajes Uevados a cabo por el Dr. Holmberg, en 1881, 1882, y 1883 a 

 la Sierra del Tandil. Actas de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias en 

 Cordoba. Tomo V. Entrega primera, Buenos Ayres : 1884.] 



Dr. Holmberg's three scientific expeditions into the Sierra 

 of Tandil, in the Argentine Republic, in 1881 and the two 

 following years, prove that this district is not rich in birds. 



