Recently published Ornithological Works. 301 



33. Godman and Salvia's ' Bioloyia Centrali- Americana.^ 



[Biologia Centrali-Americana ; or, Contributions to the Knowledge of 

 the Fauna and Flora of Mexico and Central America. Edited by 

 F. DuCane Godman and Osbert Salviu. (Zoology.) Part CXXXVIII. 

 (Published for the Editors by R. PI. Porter, 7 Princes Street, Cavendish 

 Square, W.] 



The completiou of the second volume of the Birds of the 

 ' Biologia ' was announced iu our last notice of this great 

 work (see Ibis, 1897, p. 462). We have now before us the 

 first portion of the third volume, mainly occupied by the Owls, 

 in treating of which the arrangement adopted in the ' Nomen- 

 clator' is closely followed. One species of Strix is the only 

 representative of the Strigidse iu Central America ; while of 

 the more numerous Asionidse no fewer than 32 species are 

 recognized as coming within the limits of the work. These 

 are referred to ten genera ; Scops, with eleven species, being 

 the most numerous. Excellent coloured figures are given of 

 Syrnium falvescens and Scops irichopsis. 



Next to the Owls comes the Osprey, which Mr. Salvin 

 places at the head of the Order Accipitres : he does not separate 

 the American form from Pandion haliaetus of the Old World. 



31. Hartert on Birds from Savu. 



[On the Birds collected by Mr. Everett on the Island of Savu. By 

 Ernst Hartert. Nov. Zool. iv. p. 263.] 



The little island of Savu, situated between Rotti and Sumba, 

 was visited by Cook in his first voyage (see vol. ii. p. 258, 8vo 

 edition, 1821), bnt does not seem to have been explored by 

 any recent traveller except Riedel, who has written on its 

 ethnology. Mr. Everett arrived there in August 1896, and 

 stayed a month, but gives a poor account of the island. The 

 birds which he obtained are referred by Mr. Hartert to 

 51 species, none of which are peculiar; the avifauna of Savu 

 is, in fact, the same as that of Timor. Gerygone everetti, 

 which Mr. Hartert in the present paper describes as new, 

 occurs also in Timor. 



