Recently published Ornithological Works. 561 



Catalogue of Birds in 1891, the distinctive characters of 

 which are not so strongly marked. 



The Lories, as will be at once evident on inspection of the 

 six coloured plates that illustrate Count Salvadori's memoir, 

 are one of the most brilliant groups of birds, and clad in 

 scarlet and blue of various shades. As in the ' Catalogue,' 

 the author divides them into 14 genera, and gives " keys " 

 to the species of every genus, so that they can, in most 

 cases, be easily determined by their most salient characters. 

 About 90 species are recognised, spread over the Avhole 

 Australian Region except New Zealand, but most abundant 

 in New Guinea and Australia. One species (Psitteuleles 

 johnstonia) , strangely enough, has passed out of Australian 

 limits and taken up its abode in the mountains of the 

 Philippine Islands *. 



The Cyclopsittacidae, which form the subject of the 

 twelfth part of the f Genera Avium/ are characterised by 

 the abseuce of the transverse ridges on the under surface of 

 the upper mandible. They contain two genera only — 

 Neopsittacus and Cyclopsittacus, both confined to the Austro- 

 Malayan Subregion. The former genus contains 4 species 

 and the latter 19. Some of them are well figured in the 

 two accompanying plates. 



We think that Mr. Wytsman would do well to " hurry 

 up" his assistant ornithologists, who have only supplied 

 him with twelve parts in five years ! 



67. Sclater on the Jacamars. 



[Genera Avium, conducted by P. Wytsman. Part X. Picarice, 

 Fam. Galbulidse, by P. L. Sclater. 7 pp., 1 col. plate. Price 3s. 8d. 

 Brussels, 1909.] 



The Neotropical Family of Jacamars, as explained in the 

 introductory remarks to this memoir, has occupied Sclater's 

 attention for many years. In 1882 he published a 

 monograph of them and of the allied family of Puff- 



* Cf. Goodfellow, Avicult. Mag. iv. p. 83, pi. 



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