Recently published Ornithological Works. 733 



(according to the system which he follows). Thus this 

 volume gives us an account of 560 species^ belonging to 30 

 families. 



We observe that even glaring faults of grammar are not 

 corrected in the nomenclature adopted (e. g., Aplopelia) 

 and that " homonyms " are in use throughout. The occur- 

 rence of Baheniceps rex on Lake Victoria (see above, p. 156) 

 is apparently not credited (p. 357). Bcdearica yibbericejis 

 is wisely reduced to the rank of a subspecies — is it even 

 that? 



140. Rothschild and Hartert on Papuan Birds. 



[Notes on Papuan Birds. By the Hon. W. Eothschild, Ph.D., and 

 Ernst Hartert. (Continued.) Nov. Zool. viii. p. 102.] 



The authors continue their notes on the large series of 

 Papuan birds in the Tring Museumj and discuss the 

 Columbae, Megapodidse, Rallidse, Limicolse, and Alcedinidse. 

 The following new names are proposed : — Ptilinopus gestroi 

 kaporensis (from Kapoor), Syma torotoro meeki (from British 

 New Guinea), and S. t. ochracea (from the D^Entrecasteaux 

 group). Some species, in our opinion well-marked, are 

 reduced to subspecific rank — e. g., Ptilopus bellus and P. 

 johannis. which surely should not be placed in the same 

 category as the multitudinous races of Macropygia. 



141. Shufeldt on the Osteology of the Penguins. 

 [Osteology of the Penguins. By Dr. R. W. Shufeldt, C.M.Z.S., 



M.A.O.U. Journ. Anat. Phys. xxxv. p. 390, 1901.] 



The author having carefully consulted the writings of 

 Watson, Coues, Newton, Milne-Edwards, Sclater, and others 

 on the Spheniscidee, and having studied the ample material 

 in the U.S. National ]Museum, thinks it well to furnish in 

 an article of some fourteen pages a compendium of our 

 knowledge of the group up to the present time. The learned 

 Doctor's good work is so well known that we are sure many 

 will join with us in the wish that there had been a little less 

 Watson and a little more Shufeldt, for there does not seem 

 to be much in this useful compilation that is unfamihar, 

 except with regard to the second ramal foramen of the 



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