378 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



We commend this journal to those who can read German, as 

 containing a mine of information on the birds of the 

 Palsearctic Region. In the numbers now before us there 

 are papers on the birds of Krasnojarsk by Herr Johansen 

 of Tomsk, and the first part of an article on those of the 

 island of Lesina, in the Adriatic, by Dr. G. Schiebel, besides 

 one on the birds of Semiretsch (by Baron Loudon) which has 

 been already noticed (see above, p. 184). 



46. Parrot on the Birds of Banka and Sumatra. 



[Beitrage zur Ornitliologie Sumatras und der Insel Banka, mit 

 besonderer Zugrundelegung der von Dr. Hagen auf Banka gesammelten 

 Vogel. Von Dr. C. Parrot. Abh. k. Bayer. Ak. d. Wiss. ii. Kl. xxiv. Bd. 



i. Abt.] 



This memoir is based primarily on a collection of birds 

 made in the island of Banka by Dr, B. Hagen, of 

 Frankfort-a.-M., and presented to the Munich Museum, 

 but some other collections have been incorporated, and 

 the result is a complete memoir on the birds of Sumatra 

 and Banka. 



The number of species and subspecies attributed to 

 Sumatra by Dr. Parrot is 132 (see correction, p. 286) and to 

 Banka 60. The author, who claims to belong to the '^ new 

 school " of systematists, considers that all species belonging 

 to the same '' Formen-complex '' ought to be classed as sub- 

 species. He therefore provides nearly all his species with three 

 names, so that many of what old-fashioned ornithologists 

 would consider to be quite distinct species are here degraded 

 to subspecific rank, and have a third name tacked on to them. 

 Under these circumstances species and subspecies must be 

 added together when comparing the Ornis of the two 

 islands. 



The following new names appear to be used for tlie first 

 time in this memoir : — Megakenia hamacephala delica, Rham- 

 phococcyx curvirostris singularis (Sumatra), Ceyx rufidorsa 

 robusta (Sumatra), Sitta frontalis hageni (Banka and Java), 

 Treron nipalensis harterti (Sumatra), and Turtur tigrinus 

 mino7') Sumatra). Pitta atricapilla rothschildi is based on a 



