Recently published Ornithological IVurks. 193 



23. Rothschild and Hartert on Meek's Collections from 

 British New Guinea. 



[List of Collections of Birds made by A. S. Meek in the Mountains on 

 the Upper Aroa River and on the Angabunga River, British New 

 Guinea. By the Hon. Walter Rothschild, Ph.D., and Ernst llartort, 

 Ph.D. Nov. Zool. xiv. p. 447 (UW/).] 



This memoir gives us an account of the reaiarka])le 

 collections o£ birds made by ]\[r. Rothschild's excellent 

 collector, Meek, on the mountains of the Upper Aroa River 

 and on the Angabunga River, in British New Guinea. 

 The specimens are referred to 197 species and subspecies, 

 amongst which Hypotvenidia brachypus alberti, Clytoniyias 

 insignis corti, Edoliisoma montana minus, Myzomela obscara 

 meehi, and Ptilotis meekiana (all from New Guinea) arj 

 described as new. Poecilodryas leucops albigularis (from 

 Cape York) is also new. Mr. Meek procured ou the Aroa 

 River a specimen of the remarkable Duck Salvadorina 

 waigiuensis. There are now five examples of this bird m the 

 Tring Museum. 



24. Theobald on " Economic Ornithology J* 



[Economic Ornithology in relation to Agriculture, Horticulture, and 

 Forestry. By Fred. V. Theobald, M.A., Vice-Principal and Zoologist of 

 the S.E. Agricultural College. Science Progress, no. 6, p. 263.] 



Economic Ornithology is a branch of our subject which 

 is not often alluded to, except casually, in the pages of this 

 Journal, and we are grateful to Mr. Theobald for calling our 

 attention to it. " There are many people," he writes, " who 

 have a sentimental love for birds and say ' none should be 

 destroyed.^ Others, who have lost much money by their 

 ravages, say ' destroy theni all.''' The opinion of ornith- 

 ologists in general is certainly largely in favour of the fiist 

 of these alternatives ; but it may, perhaps, be regretfully 

 allowed that there are some few exceptions required to the 

 general rule of preservation. Mr. Theobald goes through 

 the principal birds of the British List with much fairness, 

 and we agree with many of his conclusions, though others 

 are not quite satisfactory. What would be the state of our 



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