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form of A. herodias, with which it intergrades, and that it 

 should consequently be reduced to the rank of a subspecies, 

 as A. h. wardi. 



123. De Vis on a new Parrot. 



[Description of a Charniosinopsis. By C. W. De Vis. Aunals of the 

 Queensland Museum, No. 5, p. 12, 1900.] 



Mr. De Vis describes and figures Charniosinopsis bella, a 

 new Loi'y from British New Guinea^ based on six examples 

 brought to Brisbane by Sir William Macgregor, lately 

 Governor. The exact locality is '^probably '^ the Wharton 

 Range. The species is allied to C. pulchella. 



124. Finsch's Lists of the Birds in the Ley den Mvseum. 



[Zur Catalogisirung der ornithologiselien Abtlieilung von Dr. 0. 

 Finsch. II.-V. N^^gg Leyden Mus. xxii. pp. 129-161, 193-224.] 



Dr. Finsch proceeds with his reviews of the specimens of 

 birds in the Leyden IVIuseum, and in these parts deals with 

 the Steppe-Eagles, the South-sea Parrots, the Stonechats, and 

 various genera of Indian Passerines. Of the Steppe-Eagles 

 he allows 10 species, following Suschkin, who has lately 

 carefully studied the full series at Leyden. " Damara-laud " 

 is a curious locality for Aquila orientalis, where a specimen 

 is said to have been obtained by Audersson in 1862. 



In discussing the Pyrrhulopses of the South Pacific, Dr. 

 Finsch comes to the conclusion that P. tabuen.sis is not an 

 introduced species in the Tonga-group, as has been supposed, 

 but an indigen^ the existence of which on Tongatabu and 

 Eua was ascertained by Cook in 1773, though it may have 

 since become extinct on the former island. 



The Saxicolinae, represented at Leyden by 191 examples of 

 19 species, are reviewed at some length. 



Writing of the Passeres of various genera of the families 

 Oriolidse^ Dicruridae, Muscicapidse, Sylviids, Timeliidse, 

 Zosteropidae, and Nectariniidse, contained in the Leyden 

 IMuseum, Dr. Finsch institutes two new genera and three 

 new species. The former are Eugerygofie (for Pseudogery- 

 gone rubra S harpe) and Pseudoxenicus (for Micrura super- 



