Recently published Ornithological Works. 503 



Mr. GriuneU's field-notes on the birds met with are very full 

 and of much interest. He has made 17 additions to the 

 list of the birds of the district, amongst which is a new 

 subspecies of Lanius borealis, which he proposes to call L. b. 

 invictus, being apparently the western representative form. 

 Other interesting species met with were Soniateria v-nigrum, 

 Fratercula curniculata (breeding in numbers on Chamisso 

 Island), Philacte canagica with its eggs, Aphriza virgata in 

 full breeding-plumage, and Cyanecula suecica, which appeared 

 to be nesting. 



After the field-notes follows a useful list of publications 

 relating to the ornithology of Kotzebue Sound, and a 

 " check-list " of the birds as yet ascertained to occur in the 

 district — 150 in all. 



94. Hall on the Distribution of Australian Birds. 



[The Distribution of Australian Birds. — Additional llecords. By 

 Robert Hall. Victorian Nat. xvii. pp. 59-6.", 1900.] 



Mr. Hall records a number of species additional to the 

 areas 3, 6, 8, and 9 into which he has divided Australia in 

 his '' Key " to Australian birds. To the avifauna of area 9 

 (Western Australia) numerous additions are made. 



95. Hartert on the Birds of the Key Islands and Ceram- 

 Laut. 



[On the Birds of the Key and South-east Islands and of Ceraiu-Laut. 

 By Ernst Hartert. Nov. Zool. viii. p. 1.] 



This is the first part of a review of the birds of the Key 

 Islands, the South-east Islands between Key and Ceram, and 

 of Ceram-Laut, an outlier of Ceram, based on collections 

 lately transmitted to Tring by Mr. H. Kiihn. After a de- 

 scription of the various localities and remarks on their 

 physical conditions, the Pittidse and Psittaci (14 species in 

 all) are enumerated, with appropriate comments. Zoologically 

 these islands all belong to the Moluccan subdivision of the 

 Papuan Subregion, " having very few specially Papuan land- 

 forms.^' 



