Recently published OrnUhological Works. G85 



' The Ibis ' for 186.2, pi. ii.) of Argeutina, and gives a new 

 description and figure of it from a specimen in the Turati 

 collection at Milan. 



120. Neumann, on the Genus Sigmodus. 



[Neue uad selteiie Arten de.. Genus " Sigmodus,'"' Temm. Von Oscar 

 Neumann. Ornithol. Monitsb. 1899, p. 89.] 



Herr Neumann reviews some of the African Bush-Shrikes 

 of the genus Sigmodus, and makes two new subspecies of 

 S. retzii — namely, S. r. nigricans from Northern Angola, and 

 S. r. intermedius from Tanganyika and Victoria. 



121. Neumann on the African Bush-Shrikes. 



[Beitriige zu einer Revision der Laniarinen. Von Oscar Neumann. 

 J. f. 0. 1899, p. 3S7.] 



Herr Neumann reviews the African Bush-Shrikes of the 

 six genera Malaconotus, Cosmophoneus, Chlorophoneus, Peli- 

 cinius, Laniarius, and Dryoscopus ; Cosmophoneus being a 

 new genus instituted for Laniarius multicolor and its allies. 

 The following species and subspecies are described as new : — 

 Malaconotus hamatothorax irova Cameroon, M catharoxanthus 

 from the White Nile ; Cosmophoneus preussi from Cameroon, 

 C. reichenowi from Cameroon, C. sulphur eopectus suahelicus 

 from East Africa ; Laniarius athiopicus hydridus from 

 Transvaal; Dryoscopus malzacii nyansce from Kavirondo and 

 Uganda, Z). m. erythrece from Erythrsea, D. cubla occidentalis 

 from Angola, and D. c. suahelicus from British and German 

 East Africa. The various forms of Laniarius tethiopicus, 

 after a special study of their divergences, are reduced to sub- 

 species. In Dryoscopus several species are recognized which 

 can be distinguished only in the female sex, the males being 

 nearly identical. 



122. North on Nests and Eggs of Australian Birds. 



[Descriptions of the Nests and Eggs of Six Species of Aus'.ralian Bird.s. 

 By Alfred J. North, C.M.Z.S. Victorian Nat. xvi. p. 9.] 



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