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E. Weiske in Papua (British New Guinea) and Northern 

 Queensland from 1895 to 1900 has been purchased by 

 Dr. Steindachner and presented to the Vienna Museum. 

 But we believe that specimens from the same collector had 

 previously gone e'sewhere. Dr. Sassi now gives us a list of 

 Weiske' s birds and refers them to 45 species. None are 

 described as new, but we see the names of such rare species 

 as Oreocharis arfaki and Paramythia montium in the list. 

 It would have been better to have kept the Australian birds 

 separate from those of New Guinea. 



25. Shvfeldt on the Osteology of Birds. 



[Osteology of Birds. By R. W. Shufeldt New York State Education 

 Department, Bull. 130. Albany, 1909.] 



This ' Bulletin ' contains a series of articles by Dr. Shufeldt 

 on Accipitres, Gallinae, Anseres, and C'uccystes glaudarius, 

 with a bibliography of papers referring to the subject. 

 These have for the most part been separately published in 

 former years, but the illustrations are chiefly new and the 

 subject-matter is worked up afresh. The species treated 

 are chiefly North American, as might be expected ; but the 

 volume will be none the less useful on that account to our 

 readers, and evidently forms a fairly complete manual of the 

 Doctor's writings. 



26. ' The South African Journal' 



[The Journal of the South African Ornithologists' Union. Vol. y. No, '2 

 (Oct. 1909).] 



The first paper in this number is by Mr. E. C. Chubb, on 

 birds collected between Bulawayo and theTegwani ltiver bv 

 Mr. R. Douglas. He records Buteo desertorum from South 

 Rhodesia for the first time, and gives notes on immature 

 examples of Numida coronata. The second paper, which 

 should be studied by those interested in the distribution of 

 South African species, is on birds observed during a journey 

 through Portuguese Nyassa-land in July and August, at au 

 average elevation of some 1500 feet. The writer, Major 



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