158 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



collei'tions recently received at the Triiig Museum from their 

 Collector, ]\[r. A. S. Meek, from Kuhimbaiigra, north of 

 New Georgia, and from Florida near Guadalcanar, 



The species represented in these two collections are 48 in 

 number, of which 9 are described as new — namely, Zosterops 

 kulambiuKjroi, Z. fioridanus, Graucalus hypoleucus, Myzomela 

 eichhurni, M. kulumbanyrce, Myiagra feminina, Rhipidura 

 (dbina, Cucumantis addendus, and Hypocharmosyna meeki, 

 besides several su])species. 



In a footnote the Eurystounis of New Hanover is separated 

 as E. neo-hanoveranus (! scr. novo-hanover anus) . 



30. Salvadori on Birds from Spitsbergen. 



[Intorno nd alcuni Uccelli della Spitzber<>'he. PerTomniaso Salvadi)ri. 

 Boll. Mus. d. Zool. e. Anat. Comp. d. R. Univ. d. Torino, xvi. no. 388.] 



This is an account of the birds obtained in Spitsbergen 

 during the visit there oF King Victor-Immanuel III. (then 

 Prince of Naples) in the summer of 1898 (see Mem, Soe. 

 Geogr. Ital. ix. p. 82). The 74 bird-skins brought home 

 are referred to 14 species, all well known. But Count 

 Salvadori takes this opportunity to demonstrate that the so- 

 called Lagopus hemileucurus of Spitsbergen is merely a 

 phase of plumage of X. hyperboreus. 



31. Saunders on Antarctic Birds. 



[The Antarctic Manual for the use of the Expedition of 1901. Edited 

 by George IMurray, F.ll.S. Birds : by Howard Saunders, F.L.S., F.Z.S., 

 r.E.G.S. pp. 225-238. Royal Geographical Society, 1 Savile Row, 

 London, 1901.] 



In the Manual composed for the use of our Antarctic 

 explorers, edited by Mr. George Murray, will be found 

 an excellent essay on the birds of the South Polar Regions, 

 prepared by Mr. Howard Saunders. After a general dis- 

 cussion of the Penguins, Petrels, and Gulls met with to the 

 south of 60° or a trifle to the northward, which form the 

 bulk of the Antarctic Ornis, and allusions to the Sheath- 

 bills [Chiunis) and a Cormorant which is not yet properly 

 identified, a systematic list of the 26 species more or less 



