380 Recently published Ormthologkcal Works. 



localities and ranges of the birds of West Africa, and we are 

 glad to see Mr. Hartert engaged in cataloguing local col- 

 lections from this quarter. Capt. Giffard^s scene of operations 

 was mostly Gambaga, in the interior of the Gold-Coast 

 Colony aO° 50' N. lat. and about 1° W. long.), though a 

 few^ of his specimens were obtained elsewhere. The col- 

 lection comprises examples of 150 species. The three 

 novelties have been already described in the Bull. B. O. C. 

 (x. p. v; Ibis, 1900, pp. 181-2), but Mr. Hartert introduces 

 many valuable notes and comments in his present paper, 

 especially as regards distribution. 



47. Hartert on Birds from Cape York. 



[On some Birds from Cape York, North Queensland. By Ernst 

 Hartert. Nov. Zool. vi. p. 423, 1899.] 



We have here notes on specimens " from a large and 

 fine collection " made by Mr. Albert S. Meeks' collectors 

 at Cape York in June and July 1898. Mr. Hartert writes 

 on 25 species ; among which he now describes Artatnus 

 leucorhynchus parvii'ostris and Zosterops ivesternensis veyeta 

 as new subspecies. Poepfdla nigrotecta from the same 

 collection has been already characterized (Bull. B.O. C. viii. 

 p. lix). 



48. Hartert on Myzomela rubro-cucuUata. 



[On Myzomela ruhro-cucullata Tristr. By Ernst Hartert. No\'. Zool 

 vi. p. 428 (1899).] 



Mr. Hartert suspects that Myzomela rubro-cucullata Tristr. 

 (Ibis, 1889, p. 228) is not really from St. Aignan (as was 

 supposed by the describer), but more probably from one of 

 the Solomon group. He has examined the type now in the 

 Liverpool Museum. 



49. Japp on Cuckoos. 



[Our Common Cuckoo and other Cuckoos and Parasitical Birds; an 

 attempt to reach a True Theory of them by comparative Study of Habit 

 and Function : with a thorough Criticism and E.\posure of Darwin's 



