388 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



Q>7. Blasius on the Birds of Malta and Gozo. 



[Ornis von Malta und Gozo, und den umliegenden Inselu, mit Beitrh'gen 

 aus den ornithologisclien Berichten der Leuchttliurmwacliter von Delli- 

 niHi-a und Giordan aus den Jahren 1886-1894. Von Professor Dr. R. 

 Blasius. Ornis, viii. p. 139. 1895.] 



Dr. R. Blasius has received for study the sets of observa- 

 tions made by the keepers of the lighthouses in Malta and 

 Gozo on the birds that occurred at these stations in the nine 

 years 1886-1894. From the writings of previous authorities 

 on the birds of the Maltese group (Scherabri, Wright^ and 

 Giglioli)^ he has compiled a new list of the avifauna, and has 

 interpolated these observations under the heads of the species 

 to which they refer. At its conclusion the ornis of Malta 

 and its satelUtes is shown to comprise 282 species, besides 

 11 doubtful visitors. Of these only 12 are permanent resi- 

 dents, 7 are summer and 44 winter visitants, and 107 birds 

 of regular passage. The remainder are of more or less irre- 

 gular occurrence. 



G8. Bolau on two Sea-Eagles. 



[Der Riesen-Seeadler und der Korea-Seeadler ini zoologischen Garten 

 in Hamburg. Von Dr. Ileinr. Bolau. Zool. Garten, xxxv. p. 193.] 



Dr. Bolau describes shortly and figures the two Giant 

 Sea-Eagles now quite adult and living in the Zoological 

 Gai'den at Hamburg — Haliaetus pelagicus and H. branickii. 

 Of the latter the Zoological Society of London have also a 

 specimen, received in September 1893, still wholly black, so 

 apparently not yet adult. 



69. Bourns and Worcester on new Phili])pine Birds. 



[Preliminary Notes on the Birds and Mammals collected by the Menage 

 Scientific Expedition to the Philippine Islands. By Frank S. Bourns 

 and Dean C. Worcester. Minnesota Ac. Nat. Sci. Occasional Papers, 

 vol. i. no. 1, Minneapolis, 1894.] 



Messrs. Bourns and Worcester were members of the cele- 

 brated "Steere Expedition" to the Philippines in 1887-88. 

 Being convinced that much more remained to be done in 



