148 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



We trust that this useful piece of work, once started, may 

 be brouglit to a speedy conclusion. No reason is given for 

 the long delay of ten years which has taken place since the 

 MS. was prepared. 



9. Finsch on the Birds of the Sildwest Islands. 

 [Systematische Uebersicht der Vogel der Siidwest-Inseln vou Dr. 0. 

 Finsch. Notes Leyden Mus. xxii. pp. 225-309.] 



The '' Sildwest " are a chain of volcanic islands in the 

 Banda Sea, some 27 in number, which extend eastwards 

 from Timor to the Tenimber Islands. After an elaborate 

 disquisition on what has been already done with regard to 

 ornithology in this group by the collectors and naturalists 

 of Holland, Germany, and England, Dr. Finsch calls special 

 attention to the large collections recently made there for the 

 Leyden Museum by Karl Schadler, who had previovisly 

 worked in New Guinea and Amboina. Some of these have 

 already been described (see Notes Leyd. Mus. xx. p. 129), 

 but their interest is such that Dr. Finsch has been induced 

 to put together a comi)lete account of them, to which are 

 added references to all the previous authorities on the 

 subject. We have thus before us an excellent memoir on the 

 Ornis of this interesting island-group, Avhich, so far as it has 

 yet been explored, is shown to be the home of 123 species. 

 Of these, 21 are peculiar to the group. One species 

 {Rhi])idura reichenoivi) is now described as new, the other 

 novelties having been already characterized. On three plates 

 appended to this memoir some of the more remarkable 

 species of the Sildwest group are depicted — Sphecotheres 

 hypoleucus, Gerygone kisserensis, G. wetterensis, Rhipidura 

 reichenoivi, Stigmatops notabilis, and Alopecoenas hoedti. 

 The last-named is a very curious form of Ground-Dove 

 discovered by Hoedt in Wetter in 1860, and is known only 

 from the typical pair at Leyden. 



10. Fdhrer on the Birds of Montenegro. 



[Beitrage zur Ornis Montenegro's uud des angrenzendeu Gebietes von 

 Nordalbanien. Vou Ludwig' von Fiihrer. Oruitliul. Jahrb. xi. pp. 165- 

 189, xii. pp. 1-79.] 



