130 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



■which was sent to the Hungarian National Museum by Graf 

 Rudolf Festetich, and was described by Dr. Madarasz as 

 being from Bougainville Island of the Solomon group. On 

 re-examination at Tring these birds have been identified as 

 belonging, with one exception, to well-known species of 

 German New Guinea. The exception is Eclectus pectoralis 

 xalamonensis Rothsch. & Hart., which is really from Bougain- 

 ville. The importance of having all specimens correctly 

 labelled immediately they are obtained is commented on. 



22. Schnee on the Land-fauna of the Marshall Islands. 



[Die Landfauna der Marschall-Inseln nebst einigen Beruerkungen zur 

 Fauna der Insel Nauru. Von Dr. med. Paul Schnee. Zool. Jahrb., 

 Syst. xx. pp. 387-412 (1904).] 



The Marshall Islands lie in the Pacific, between the Caro- 

 lines and the Gilbert group, from 5° to 14° N. lat. They 

 are about thirty-four in number. The author, who passed 

 many years on medical service in Jaluit, the principal island, 

 has put together in this article a summary of its land-fauna, 

 the list of birds having been compiled for him by Prof, 

 lieichenow. The 24 species are nearly all Waders and Sea- 

 birds, except the wandering Cuckoo, Eudynamis taitensis, 

 as has been long ago shown by Dr. Finsch (see ' Ibis/ 1880, 

 p. 329). The Tatare of the group (T. rehsii) is said to be 

 extinct on Jaluit, though still existing on Nauru (cf. Finsch, 

 'Ibis/ 1883, p. 143). 



23. Scott and Sharpe on Patagonian Birds. 



[Reports of the Princeton University Expeditions to Patagonia 1890- 

 1899, J. B. Hatcher in Charge, edited by William D. Scott. Volume II # 

 Ornithology, Part I. Rkeidae — Spheniscidse. By William Earle Dodge 

 Scott, Princeton University, associated with R. Bowdler Sharpe, British 

 Museum of Natural History. 4to. 112 pp. Princeton, 1904.] 



We are glad to receive the first Part of Mr. W. E. D. 

 Scott's work on the Birds of Patagonia. Originally based 

 on the collections made by the Princeton University's 

 Geological Expeditions to Patagonia (1896-99) under the 

 charge of Dr. J. B. Hatcher, it has been augmented by the 

 careful studies of the author in the British Museum into 



