Recently published Ornitholoyical Works. 375 



41. Mearns on Philippine Birds. 



[(1) Two Additions to the Avifauna of tlie Philippines. By E. A. 

 Mearns. Philipp. Journal of Science, vol. ii. p. 353. 



(2) Descriptions of a new Genus aud Nine new Species of Philippine 

 Birds. By E. A. Mearns. T. c. p. 355.] 



In the first paper Major Mearns adds two species to the 

 List of Philippine birds, viz. Butorides spodiogaster (Palawan) 

 and Spodiopsar cineraceus (Luzon). In the second he 

 describes a new genus aud nine new species belougiiig to the 

 Philippine Ornis — namely, Malindangia macgregori (Min- 

 danao), Centropus carpenteri (Batan), Cyornis mindnrensis, 

 Rhipidura hutcldnsoni (Malindaugj, Hypsipetes batanensis, 

 Merula malindangensis, M. mayonensis, Geocichla mindorensis, 

 and Zosterops halconensis (Mindoro). The new genus 

 Malindangia belongs to the Canipophagidse, 



42. Menegaux on the Birds of the French Antarctic 

 Expedition. 



[Expedition Autarctique Frau^aise (1903-1905) commaud^e^par le 

 Dr. Jean Charcot. Sciences Naturelles; documents scientifiques. Oiseaux 

 par A. Menegaux, Assistant au Museum d'HistoireXaturelle. 4to, 80 pp., 

 13 pi. Paris: Masson, 1907.] 



This is one of a series of memoirs on the scientific results 

 of the French Antarctic Expedition of 1903-5, which was 

 under the command of Dr. Jean Charcot. The expedition 

 wintered at ^Vaudel Island, near the eastern extremity of 

 Gerlache Strait, on the shores of Graliam^s Land in 65° S. lat. 

 About 150 birds in skins, besides eggs and spirit-specimens, 

 were brought home. These are referred by the author to 

 the following 20 species : — 



1. Pjgoscelis papua, 



2. „ adeliae. 



3. „ antarctica. 



4. Phalacrocorax atriceps. 



5. Sterna vittata. 



6. Lavus dominicanus. 



7. Megalestris antarctica. 



8. Oceanites oceauicus. 



9. Thalassceca antarctica. 

 10. Priocella gflacialoides. 



11. Majaqueus fequinoctialis. 



12. Pagodroma uivea. 



13. Ossifraga gigantea. 



14. Daption capensis. 



15. Prion desolatus. 



16. Phcebetria fidiginosa. 



17. Diomedea exulans. 



18. „ melanophrys. 



19. ,, chlororhyncha. 



20. .Chionis alba. 



