126 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



" orders " are not very classically chosen. '^ Rallae " should 

 be " Ralli/' and '' Pterocles " " Pterocletes " or " Pteroclae." 

 To reunite the Hirundinidte with the Macrochires is a fright- 

 fully retrogade step^ which we could not have believed our 

 author would have been guilty of ! 



11. Brdggemann's 'Birds of Celebes' * 



[Beitrage zur Ornithologie von Celebes und Sangir von Dr. Friedrich 

 Briiggemann. 8vo. Bremen : 187(3.] 



It is with much pleasure that we welcome a "new recruit to 

 the ranks of working ornithologists. Dr. Briiggemann founds 

 the present essay principally upon a collection made in 1873- 

 74 by Dr. George Fischer^ a medical officer of the Dutch 

 Government, partly during excursions from Menado into 

 Minahassa, in Celebes, and partly on Sanghir Island. The 

 Darmstadt collection, however, had previously a series of 

 Celebes birds, mostly presented by Hrn. v. Rosenberg and 

 Riedel. Altogether the Gra;id-ducal museum contains more 

 than 1200 Celebes and Sanghir skins, of M'hich 1066 are due 

 to Dr. Fischer^s researches. 



Dr. Briiggemann follows the arrangement of Lord Tweed- 

 dale's well-known memoir on the birds of Celebes in the 

 Zoological Society's ' Transactions,' but adds many additional 

 species. He describes as new : — Astur tenuirostris , Halcyon 

 cyanocephalon, and Cuculus vtrescens from Celebes ; Pitta 

 palUcejis from Sanghir; Pitta kochi from Luzon; Monarcha 

 commutata from Celebes ; Artamus brevipes from the Pacific 

 Islands (!) ; Corvus annectens from Celebes ; C. fallaw and C. 

 niodestus, collected as C. annectens by Rosenberg, but without 

 localities annexed; Ptilonopus nuchalis from Sanghir ; P.fis- 

 cheri and Carpophaga pcecilorrhoa from Celebes; Gallinula 

 lepida, ex loc. ign. ; and (in an appendix) Cuculus asturinus 

 from Celebes. A new genus, Schizoptila, is proposed for 

 Rallina rosenbergi, Walden. Altogether fourteen additional 

 species are added to the avifauna of Celebes, which now com- 

 prises 229 species. 



* Cf remarks by Count T. Salvadori (Ibis, 1876, p. 385). 



