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Central Group of the Solomon Islands, in which no bird has 

 ever been obtained before, and has furnished the Tring 

 Musieum with a collection from it containing examples of 

 51 species. Although the majority of these are the same as 

 those of the other islands of the central group, some inter- 

 esting new forms have been discovered (see Bull. B. O. C. 

 xxi. pp. 105-107). The peculiar races of Vella Lavella are 

 remarkable as shewing '• a tendency towards melauistic 

 coloration ,^^ 



18. Rothschild and Hartert on Birds from San Christoval. 



[On a Collection of Birds from San Christoval, Solomon Islands. By 

 the Hon. Walter Roth.<child, Ph.D., and Ernst Hartert, Ph.D. Nov. 

 Zool. XV. p. 359.] 



Mr. Meek has also been able to pay a short visit to San 

 Christoval, in the southern group of the Solomons, and to 

 fill up, at all events partially, a much-lamented gap in the 

 fine series of the Avifauna of this group in the Tring 

 Museum. The specimens in it are referred by the authors 

 to 34 species, of which Halcyon perplexa, Monarcha castanei- 

 ventris megarhynchus, and Zosterops alberti are characterized 

 as new. Many of the species described from San Christoval 

 by Tristram and Ramsay are likewise represented in the 

 collection, but, unluckily, not Ceyx gentiana ! 



19. Schaloiv on the Birds of the Tianshan. 



[Beitrage zur Vogelfauna Centralasiens von Herman Schalow. — II. 

 Uebersioht der von Herrn Dr. Gottfried Merzbacher im Centralen Tien- 

 schan gesammelten Vogel. Journ. f. Orn. 1908.] 



On a former occasion (see 'The Ibis,' 1907, p. 511) we 

 called attention to the collection of birds made by the great 

 German traveller Dr. jVIerzbacher in Central Tianshan, and 

 stated that an account of it was being prepared by Herr 

 Schalow. This account has now been completed, and has 

 been published in two parts in the 'Journal fiir Oruithologie' 

 for 1908. Herr Schalow has favoured us with a separate 

 copy of his excellent article, and we have great pleasure in. 

 saying a few words on it. 



