372 Recently published Ornithological IVorks. 



nopus superbus, P. ionozonus, P. coronulatus , P. aurantiifrons , 

 and Ptilonopus nanus, which for the most part inhabit New 

 Guinea, Aru Islands, and North Australia. A bird strictly 

 Papuan, one of the largest of this family, is the Crested Pigeon, 

 or Goura, of which four species are known, viz. — G. victories, 

 G. coronata, G. albertisi, and G. sclateri, although the former 

 has not been yet found on the Papuan continent. G. coro- 

 nata is found on the north-west, and G. albertisi on the east- 

 ern peninsulas, and G. sclateri in the central part of New 

 Guinea, where I discovered it during my first visit to the Fly. 

 During my second trip I found it also at Kataw River. If 

 in the Papuan forest lives this gigantic form of the family, 

 there we also find a dwarf in the rare and pretty Ptilonopus 

 nanus. Dendrocygna guttata, D. vagans, Nettapus pulchellus, 

 Pelecanus conspicillatus, Hamatopus longirostris, Mycteria 

 australis, and Tachy petes prion, &c. are all birds common 

 to the Aru Islands and Australia, and only lately added to 

 the list of New-Guinea birds. I wish I could give the specific 

 name of a beautiful Cassowary, of which I possess a skin 

 and skeleton; but so many species of this bird have been 

 lately described, that I do not venture to say to which it be- 

 longs, though I am inclined to think it may be a Casuarius 

 australis^. 



XXXII. — Notices of Recent Publications. 



[Continued from p. 249.] 



30. Baldwin's ' Large and Small Game of Bengal.' 

 [The Large and Small Game of Bengal and the North-western Pro- 

 vinces of India. By Captain J. H. Baldwin, F.G.S. 8vo. London : 

 Henry S. King and Co.] 



The larger portion of the 400 pages which compose this 

 handsome volume is devoted to the various IVIammals which in 

 India attract the sportsman^s first notice; but some 150 



* [It is more probably the species noticed by Sclater (P. Z. S. 1875, 

 p. 86) as C. beccarii, but which, we believe, Prof. Salvador! considers not 

 to be identical with C. beccarii of the Aru Islands. — Edt).] 



