Recently published Ornithological Works. 447 



In this useful list all the species obtained in Ireland are 

 enumerated^ those in the Museum being distinguished by 

 Egyptian type^ while those not possessed are in italics. It 

 must not be forgotten that some of the rarer stragglers to 

 Ireland, sucli as the Giiffon-Vulture, Spotted Eagle, Great 

 Sjjotted Cuckoo, Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Great Auk, and 

 others, are in the Museum of Trinity College, Dublin, and 

 that there is no reason for their transfer to the Museum in 

 Kildare Street. But surely the latter should not long remain 

 without one or more of the Irish specimens of Montagu's 

 Harrier, Red-backed Shrike, Marsh-Tit, White Wagtail, 

 Wood-Lark, Mealy Redpole, Stock-Dove, &c. which have been 

 obtained of late years, and which are neither heirlooms nor 

 have been lost sight of in the course of the change of 

 ownership incidental to so many local collections. 



125. Nehrkorn on Birds from Waigiou. 



[Zur Avifauna der Insel Waigou. Von A. Nehrkorn, J. f. 0. 1885, 

 p. 30.] 



In the winter of 1883-84 the well-known collector Dr. 

 Platen paid a visit to Waigiou, and amassed a series of 636 

 bird-skins. The species, 103 in number, are given according 

 to Salvadori's nomenclature ; and of these, 22 are new to 

 Waigiou. The eggs of several species are described, amongst 

 others those oiRhectes leucorhynchus and Pitta mackloti. Of 

 Diphjllodes wilsoni, formerly considered so rare, 40 adult 

 males, 10 young males, and 4 females were in the collection ! 



126. ' Ornithologist and Oologist.' 



[Ornitliologist and Oologist. Vol. s. No. 5.] 



The recent number of this periodical, published by Mr. 

 Frank B. Webster at Pawtucket, Rhode Island, contains 

 many interesting notes on American birds. 



127. Reid on the Birds of Bermuda. 



[The Birds of Bermuda. By Capt. Savile G. Reid, R.E., F.Z.S. Bull. 

 U.S. Nat. Mas. No. 25, pp. 163-279.] 



