248 Recently published Ornitholoyical Works. 



Tlie first gives us an account of a collection made in Bouru 

 by one of the collectors of Mr. Bruijn, and sent to the Museo 

 Civico of Genoa. It contains 180 individuals, referable to 

 53 species, some of which are not included in the excellent 

 memoir of Mr. Wallace on the birds of that island (P. Z. S. 

 1863, p. 18). Aprosmictus buruensis is described as new. 



The second contains a list of the birds collected by Mr. 

 Bruijn and Dr. Beccari during their voyage in the Dutch 

 warship ' Surabaia ' along the north coast of New Guinea"^. 

 Forty-nine species Avere represented in the collection by about 

 100 individuals. Nasiterna beccarii is described as ncAV, but 

 based on a single female only. The Goura of Humboldt Bay, 

 is hypothetically named G. beccarii ; but only a crest was ob- 

 tained, which most resembles that of G. victoria ! 



In a third short paper Dr. Salvadori shows that the bird 

 figured by Mr. Gould in part viii. of the ' Birds of Asia' as 

 the female oi Dicaum retrocinctum, really belongs to another 

 species, of which the correct name is D. rubriventer (Less.) . 



The subject of our author's next study is the second col- 

 lection made by D'Albertis on Yule Island and on the neigh- 

 bouring coast of New Guinea, and a small collection made 

 by the same diligent naturalist on the banks of the Fly river. 

 In the first series, containing examples of 112 species, 8 

 are described as new, namely Chalcopsittacus chloropterus, 

 Polophilus nigricans, Dacelo intermedius , Ptilotis albo-notata, 

 Pycnonotus stictoceplialus, Splienceacus macrurus, Eupetes ni- 

 gricrissus, and Munia canicepsf. 



The Fly-river collection contained only 12 species, of which 

 Cyclopsittacus fuscifrons, Cyanalcyon stictolama, and Goura 

 sclateri are described as new. 



Dr. Salvadori's last contribution relates to two more col- 

 lections sent by Mr. Bruijn to Genoa, one from Pettfl (Sanghir 

 group), and the other from Tifore and Batang Keteil, two 

 islets lying between Halmahera and Celebes. From Pettk 



* See ' Cosmos,' vol. iii. p. 349, for an account of the voyage. 



t Besides these, D'Albertis obtained two new Parrots at Naibui (Q/- 

 clopsitta suavissima and Trichoylossus subj'lacens), which have been de- 

 scribed by Sclater, P. Z. S. 187fi, p. 519. 



