Recently published Ornithological Works. 373 



to ornithologists, and especially to those interested in 

 European birds and tlieir nomenclature. He has, moreover, 

 added a preface and notes on the book itself. 



40. McGregor on various Philippine Birds. 



[(1) Notes on a Collection of Birds from the Island of Basilau, with 

 Descriptions of Three new Species. By R. C. McGregor. Philipp. 

 Journal of Science, ■vol. ii. p. 279. 



(2) Descriptions of Four new Philippine Birds. T. c. p. 292. 



(.3) The Occuri'ence of Blyth's Wattled Lapwing and the Scaup Duck 

 in the Philippine Islands. T. c. p. 295. 



(4) Note on a Bird unrecorded from Mindanao. T. c. p. 296. 



(5) Notes on Specimens of the Monkey-eating Eagle {Pithecophagu 

 jefferyi Grant) from Mindanao and Luzon. T. c. p. 297. 



(6) Notes on Birds collected in Cebu. T. c. p. 298. 



(7) Birds observed in Bantayan Island, Province of Cebu. T. c. p. .810. 



(8) The Birds of Bohol. T. c. p. 31.5. 



(9) The Birds of Batan, Caraiguin, Y'anii and Babuyan Claro, Islands 

 North of Luzon. T. c. p. .337.] 



These and other papers not mentioned in the present list 

 shew that our American friends are working hard at the 

 ornithology of the Philippines — a subject which presents 

 many curious problems in geographical disti'ibution and is 

 well worthy of careful study. We have nine papers by 

 Mr. McGregor, besides others by Mr. Worcester and Major 

 Mearns, now before us. 



The first paper relates to the collections made in Basilan 

 by the taxidermists of the Philippine Bureau of Science, 

 from December 1906 to March 1907 ; they contained 

 examples of 29 species new to the island. Of these, one 

 (Thriponax multilunutus) is described as new to science and 

 two others [Pitta fastosa and Orthotomus mearnsi) are 

 separated from their relatives in Mindanao, with which they 

 had been previously united. 



The second paper contains descriptions of four new 

 Philippine birds ; — Turnix celestinoi (Bohol), Zosterornis 

 affinis (Luzon), Pardaliparus albescens (Ticao), and P. 

 edithce (Calayan). 



In the third paper the occurrences of an Asiatic Plover 

 [Microsarcops cinereus) and of the Scaup-Duck [Faligula 



