Recently published Ornithological Works. 379 



Eastern Tibet^ and illustrations of two more beautiful Pittas — 

 P. cceruleitorquata and P. sanghirana of the Sangir Islands, 

 and of a rare and curious Pigeon — Ptilopus insolitus. 



42. Beccari's Account of the Playing-places of Amblyor- 

 nis inornata, 



[Le Capanue ed i Giardini dell' Amhlyornis inornata. Per 0. Beccari. 

 Ann. Mils. Civ. Genova, ix. p. 383.] 



No more interesting chapter has been recently written in 

 field-ornithology than Beccari^s account of the wonderful 

 constructions made by the Bower-bird of New Guinea, Am- 

 hlyornis inornata, as observed by himself during his visit to 

 Mount Arfak in 1875. Amblyoriiis builds for its amusement 

 a perfect circular cabin, principally of the dry twigs of an epi- 

 phytous orch\(\.[Dendrobium) , measvmng about a metre in dia- 

 meter, and supported by a single central pillar. Before the 

 entrance is a beautiful garden of dimensions rather greater 

 than the cabin, made of the greenest moss, and ornamented 

 from time to time with brilliantly coloured flowers and fruits, 

 such as flowers of a most beautiful species of Vaccinium. 

 This instinct is well known to the Malay hunters, who call the 

 bird " Tukan kobou " or " Gardener.''^ Had space permitted, 

 we should have been glad to give a translation of Dr. Bec- 

 cari^s most interesting paper, although we cannot quite agree 

 with some of the philosophical deductions which he appends 

 to it. 



43. Salvadori's Recent Ornithological Papers. 



[(1) Osservazioni intorno alle specie del genere Myristicivora, Reiehb. 

 Ann. Mils. Civ. Geneva, ix. p. 268. 



(2) Intorno alle specie del genere Talegallus, Less. Ann. Mus. Civ. 

 Geneva, ix. p. 327. 



(3 ) Note intorno ad alcuni uccelli durante 1' esplorazione del Fiiime 

 Fly. Per L. M. D'Albertis, C.M.Z.S. Ann. Mus. Civ. Geneva, x. p. 5.] 



Our ever-active friend Professor Salvadori continues his 

 papers on points connected with the ornithology of New 

 Guinea. In the first of those now before us the specific dif- 

 ferences of three Fruit-Pigeons of the genus Myristicivora 

 (M. bicolor, M. spilorrhoa, and M. melanura), which have 



