Recently published Ornitholugical Works. 21 1 



the Ornithological Congress at Buda-Pesth, to be the most 

 trustworthy on the Hungarian Ornis. The object of the 

 present paper is to enumerate some species omitted in that 

 list and to give notes on them. These species — or forms — 

 are 29 in number ; among them are Lycus {scr. Corvus) 

 collaris Drummond, Galerita senegalensis, /Egithalus castaneus 

 Sev.j and Chen hyperboreus (Pall.). 



25. Nelson on new Birds from North-western Mexico. 



[Descriptions of new Birds from Nortli-western Mexico. By E. VV. 

 Nelson. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, xiii. p. 25 (1899.) 



The collection from which the specimens here described 

 were obtained was formed by Mr. E. A. Goldman in Western 

 Mexico for the Biological Survey of the U.S. Department of 

 Agriculture. The species and subspecies now characterized 

 as new are named Amazona albifrons saltuensis, Antrostomus 

 goldmani, Aphelocoma grisea, Pipilo fuscus intermedins, 

 Cardinalis cardinalis affinis, C. c. sinaloensis, Arreinonups 

 superciliosa sinaloa, Basileuterus rujifrons caudatus, Tliryo- 

 thorus felix pallidus, Hdeodytes stridulus, Myiadestes obscurus 

 cinereus, and Catharus olivascens. 



26. Reichenow on the Birds of the Bismarck Islands. 



[Die Vogel der Bismarckinseln. Von Ant. Reichenow. Mitteil. Miis. 

 f. Nat. Berlin. Band I. Heft 3, 1899.] 



The " Bismarck Islands/' it may be necessary to explain to 

 some of our readers^ is the name assigned by their present 

 possessors to the group of islands east of New Guinea, 

 formerly called New Britain, New Ireland, and Duke of 

 York Island, but of which the names have been very 

 unnecessarily, in our opinion, changed to " Neu-Poramern,'^ 

 " Neu-Mecklenburg,'' and " Neu-Lauenburg,^'' together with 

 the adjacent groups of New Hanover and the Admiralty 

 Islands. 



After an historical account of our knowledge of the bird- 

 life of these islands (which commenced with the visit of 

 the French naturalists Lesson and Garnot, in the corvette 



