302 Recently published Ornitholoyicul Works. 



35. Hartert on Honey -eaters and other Birds from New 

 Guinea. 



[On some M elijjhagidce and other Birds from New Guinea. By Ernst 

 Hartert. Nov. Zool. iv. p. 309.] 



In a collection recently received at Tring four interesting 

 Honey-eaters are represented, from an elevation of from 

 5000 to 6000 feet, between Mount Musgrave and Mount 

 Scratchley. One of them Mr. Hartert describes as new and 

 calls Ptilotif! prcecijjua. He also remarks that Neopsittacus 

 viridiceps De Vis (Ibis, 1897, p. 871) is the same as his 

 A^. puUicauda. 



36. Hartlauh on the Birds of China. 



[Ein dritter Beitrag zur Ornithologie Chinas. Von Dr. G. Hartlaub 

 in Bremen. Abh. nat. Ver. Bremen, xiv. p. 341, 1897.] 



Our veteran and much-esteemed associate, Dr. Hartlaub, 

 writes on the birds obtained in China by the well-known 

 German collector, Gerhard Philipp Schmacker, lately de- 

 ceased. These have been presented to the Bremen Museum, 

 and consist of about 750 skins referable to some 250 species. 

 The greater part are from Shanghai, but many were obtained 

 in Hainan, Formosa, and other localities. 



After interesting remarks on recent ornithological workers 

 in China, and a useful account of their publications. Dr. 

 Hartlaub gives a systematic list of the species represented in 

 Schmacker's collection — 275 in all — and such remarks as are 

 called for on each of them. Garrulax schmackeri, a fine new 

 species from the interior of Hainan, is described and figured. 

 The collection contained a single example of the curious 

 Wader, Eurinorhynchus pygmaus from Hoihow. 



37. Hu7xie-Brown and Barrington on Rockall Island. 



[On the Ornithology of Rockall. By J. A. Harvie-Bro-wn, F.R.S.E., 

 r.Z.S., and .Richard M. Barrington, LL.B., F.L.S. Trans. R. Irish Ac. 

 xxxi. part iii. pp. 66-75.] 



On the expedition to this granitic peak, the Rock was 

 sighted on June 6th, 1896, but the weather was unfavourable. 

 A second visit was made on June 15th, but landing was 



