504 Recf)itly published Orn'ithulvgicul JTorks. 



96. Harlert on tlie Brehiii Collection. 



[The Brehm Collection. By Ernst Hartert. Nov. Zool. viii. p. 38.] 



It will be a satisfaction to all ornithologists to learn that 

 the great collection of birds (some 10,000 specimens) formed 

 by Christian Ludwig Brehm has found a resting-place in the 

 Tring Museum. It has been " on sale " ever since the death 

 of Brehm in 1861, and has remained packed up at Benthen- 

 dorfj subject to the ravages of beetles, moths, and mildew. 

 Now the labelled specimens will be carefully preserved 

 and rendered available for scientific examination. Orni- 

 thologists may not at all agree with Brehm's notions of 

 species and subspecies, but it is, of course, highly desirable 

 that the types of his descriptions should be preserved, and 

 every one will be alike grateful to Mr. Rothschild for having 

 undertaken this serious ta^k. 



A critical examination of the Brehm Collection has been 

 undertaken by Mr. Hartert and Herr Pfarrer Kleinschmidt, 

 the results of which will be published in the ' Novitates 

 Zoologicse.' The present article contains the first of the 

 series, which relates to forms of Corvus corax. Of these 

 the authors recognise ten. Two of them are now provided 

 with new subspecific names, viz. Corvns corax canariensis and 

 C. c. /lispanus. But of many previously named northern 

 forms of the Raven (C sibiricus, C. ussurianus, C. kanit- 

 schaticus, &c.), specimens have not yet been examiuedj so 

 there are other subspecies to come ! 



97. Hartert on Javan Birds. 



[Some Notes on Java IJirds. Bv Erii.st Hartert. Nov. Zool. viii. 

 p. 49.] 



After some preliminary remarks on the sources of our 

 knowledge of the birds of Java, Mr. Hartert gives notes on 

 ten species. Jn the course of them he separates from the 

 typical forms Tiga javanensis exsul o{ Bali, Sasia ubnormis 

 inagnirostris of Nias, Aracnothera loni/irostris prillivit~i of 

 Java, and Diccenm soU/rilans of Java. 



