Recently published Ornithological Works. 213 



atruta. A second specimen, lately received from British 

 New Guinea, is supposed to be a female of the same species. 

 On the same plate is figured the singular Finch Oreosiruthus 

 fuliginosus of De Vis_, of which the Tring Museum has lately 

 received a good series from Mount Knutsford, British New 

 Guinea. From the same locality have been received five 

 additional specimens of the remarkable Passerine bird 

 Ifrita coronata E-othsch., now figured on plate iii., which 

 also contains an illustration of the new Pitta dohertyi, dis- 

 covered by Doherty on Sula Mangoli. 



29. Schalow on Birds from Spitsbergen. 



[Einige Bemerkungen zur Yogelfauna von Spitzbergen. Von Herman 

 Schalow. J. f. 0. 1899, p. 375.J 



After some preliminary remarks on recent accretions to 

 our knowledge of the North-Polar Avifauna, Herr Schalow 

 gives an account of the birds collected by Dr. Romer and 

 Dr. Schaudinn in the course of the voyage of the ss. ' Helgo- 

 land ' in the Spitsbergen seas in 1898, on which a report has 

 been lately published by Capt. Riidiger in the 'Verhande- 

 lungen ' of the ' Gesellschaft fiir Erdkunde^ of Berlin (xxv. 

 p. 430, 1898). Examples of 12 species were obtained, upon 

 which various notes are given. Among these were three 

 adult specimens in breeding-dress of Xema sabinii, being the 

 first recorded as obtained on the Nordostland of Spitsbergen. 

 Gavia alba (i. e. Pagophila eburnea) was found breeding in 

 hundreds on Abel Island, King-KarFs Land. Examples of 

 a breeding Bernicle Goose, with four young in down, were 

 procured in Wide Bay, North-west Spitsbergen, and a 

 Whimbrel was shot on Bear Island on June 4th. 



30. Sharpens Hand-list of the Genera and Species of 

 Birds. 



[A Hand-list of the Genera and Species of Birds. [Nomenclator Avium 

 turn Fossiliiim tum Viventium.] By R. Bowdler Sharpe, LL.D. Vol. I. 

 8vo. London, Printed by order of the Trusteesof the British Museum, 1899.] 



The first volume of Dr. Sharpens new ' Hand-list of 

 Birds ' (see Bull. B. O. C. viii. p. xxiv) was issued in 



