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arctic, and tropical species — some of them more or less cos- 

 mopolitan, and some peculiar to it — as might be expected in 

 a long chain of islands, where various climates are found in 

 a limited space. All this he shows by tables of 41 Mammals 

 and 155 Birds, with remarks on Fishes, Amphibians, and 

 Reptiles added. The birds are marked according to the 

 islands on which they occur, an asterisk denoting for those 

 found only in Japan. 



An examination of their distribution and status, aided by 

 the light which geology affords, emphasizes the fact that 

 immigrations must have occurred from the nortli and from 

 the south at different epochs, while even in the various parts 

 of the same island striking divergfencies are noticeable. 



The author leaves out of consideration the Knriles as being 

 arctic, and the Lui-Kui and Bonin Islands as mainly tropical. 



73. Madardsz on Birds from German New Guinea. 



[Beitrage zur Ovnis Deutscli-Neu-Giiinea. (Luclvig Biro's Sammeler- 

 g-ebnisse.) Mitgetheilt von Dr. .T. v. Madarasz. Termeszet. Fuzetek, 

 xxiv. p. 73,1901.] 



The new species represented in Ludwig Biro's first collec- 

 tion from the Sattelberg, in German New Guinea, were 

 described in 1890 (Orn. Monatsb. viii. p. 1). A second 

 series from the same locality appears to have been lost 

 on its way home. Dr. Madarjisz now Avrites on a third 

 collection from German New Guinea, made by Biro in the 

 second half of 1899, which contains 86 specimens referable 

 to 45 species, and gives the names of 9 of them with notes. 

 One of them, Mi?neta szalaiji, is described as new. 



74. Martens on Antarctic Birds. 



[Hamburger Magalhaeiisisclie Sammelreise Vogel, bearbeitet von G. H. 

 .Alartens. Royal 8vo. Hamburg, 1900. 34 pp.] 



The birds collected during the '' Hamburg JNIagellanic 

 Collecting-voyage '' consisted of 60 specimens belonging to 

 44 species. In enumerating them, Herr Martens takes the 

 opportunity of cataloguing all the forms that have been 

 noted as occurring south of about 48° S. L. He does not, 

 however, include the birds of the Southern Island of New 



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