560 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



64. Robinson on rare Birds in the Malay Peninsula. 



[Notes on Birds new to, or rare in, the Malay Peninsula. By Herbert 

 C. Robinson. Journ. Fed. Mai. States Mus. vol. iv. p. 129.] 



Since the publication of Mr. Robinson's Hand-list of the 

 Birds of the Malay Peninsula south of the Isthmus of Kra 

 (see ' Ibis/ 1908, p. 379) specimens have come to hand con- 

 cerning which he thinks some details may be of interest. 

 These relate to Columba punicea, C. grisea, Porzana auri- 

 cularis, Gallinago megala, Dissura episcopus, Herodias alba, 

 Ardeola bacchus, Ardetta pulchra, Botaurus stellaris, Asar- 

 cornis leucoptera, Circus melanoleucus, Spizaetus nepalensis, 

 and Baza jer do hi. 



65. Rothschild and Hartert on Eagle-Oivls. 



[Notes on Eagle-Owls. By the Hon. Walter Rothschild and Ernst 

 Hartert. Nov. Zool. xxvi. p. 110.] 



The authors have been studying the Eagle-Owls allied to 

 Bubo ignavus, and give us the results of their investigations. 

 They recognise seven subspecies of this form, of which Bubo 

 bubo hispanus (from Spain), B. b. interpositus (from Cilicia), 

 and B. b. aharonii (from Palestine) are now described as 

 new. They are not acquainted with B. b. nikolskii of 

 Zarudny, from West Persia, said to be allied to B. b. turco- 

 manus, but smaller. Buho ascalaphus is reduced to a sub- 

 species of B. ignavus. 



66. Salvadori on Parrots. 



[Genera Avium, conducted by P. Wytsinan. Part XI. Psittaci, 

 Fam. Loriidse, by T. Salvadori. 20 pp., 6 col. plates. Price £1 7*. 2d. 

 Brussels, 1910. — Part XII. Psittaci, Fam. Cyclopsittacidae, by T. 

 Salvadori. G pp., 2 col. plates. Price 6s. Brussels, 1910.] 



We are glad to find the veteran author of these two 

 memoirs at work again on one of his favourite subjects. 

 These articles relate to the brush-tongued Loriidse — a very 

 well-marked family of the Psittacine order, and to the Cyclo- 

 psittacidre — a small but peculiar group established in the 



