454 Recent Ornithological Publications. 



Baboons than to any of the Archipelagian species; by the 

 extraordinary Babirusa of Celebes, a type of more African than 

 Indian form, and by several anomalous and peculiar birds and 

 some Hymenoptera of Celebes determined by Mr. Smith to be 

 identical with African, as others with Indian and Chinese species. 

 Here is a wide and most interesting field of research, in which I 

 have long been working, and which I hope by the assistance of 

 my collections to do much to elucidate, 



XLVII. — Recent Ornithological Publications. 



1. English Publications. 



Mr. Gould has issued the whole of the parts of the mag- 

 nificent series of works upon which he is now engaged, for the 

 present year. We have already noticed the 11th part of the 

 ' Birds of Asia.^ Of the ' Humming Birds,' Numbers XVII. 

 and XVIIL, we need only say, sustain the reputation of the pre- 

 ceding parts. No less than 270 species of these wonderful 

 birds have now been represented; and the two next succeeding 

 parts will, we believe, bring Mr. Gould nearly to the close of his 

 labours. 



The third number of the ' Supplement to the Birds of Au- 

 stralia,' whether we regard the beauty and novelty of the species 

 portrayed, or the excellence of the illustrations, is perhaps one 

 of the finest which Mr. Gould has ever issued. The Malurus 

 coronatus, Semioptera wallacii, the three species of Nestor, the 

 Casuarius bennettii, and the Chlamydera cerviniventris are all 

 birds of very great interest, and it will probably be long ere such 

 a series of splendid novelties is again brought before the public. 

 Many of the species are from localities wide of the Australian 

 mainland, but we agree with Mr. Gould in considering that the 

 islands in which they originate certainly belong to the same pri- 

 mary fauna. The birds represented are — 



Malurus coronatus, from N. Australia. 



Semioptera wallacii, from Batchian. 



Psepkotus chrysopterygius, from N. Australia. 



Nestor nolabilis, from New Zealand (Middle Island). 



esslingii, from New Zealand. 



hypopolius, from New Zealand. 



