Recently published Ornithological Works. -^77 



53. Salvadori on Papuan and Moluccan Nectarinians. — 



[Intorno alle specie di Nettarinie della Papuasia, delle Molucclie e del 

 gruppo di Celebes. Atti d. R. Ace. d. Sc. di Torino, xii. p. 299.] 



This paper supplements the aiithor^s former memoir on 

 Hermotimia (Atti R. Ac. Sc. Torino, x. p. 201), but includes 

 also notices of all the other Nectarinice of Papuasia, the Mo- 

 luccas, and Celebes. There are, according to Prof. Salva- 

 dori's views, 14 Hermotimia, 3 species oi JEthopyga, 2 of Cyr- 

 tostomus, and 1 Anthrothreptus within these limits. 



54. Salvadori on D^Albertis^s Collections of 1872. 



[Catalogo della prima coUezioue di uccelli fatta nella Nuova Guinea 

 nel 1872 dal Siguor L. M. D'Albertis. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genoa, x. p. 111.] 



Of the collections made by D^Albertis in New Guinea in 

 1872 only a portion, principally the novelties, have been yet 

 described, by Sclater in the Zoological Society's 'Proceedings,' 

 and by Salvadori in the 'Annali' of the Museo Civico of 

 Genoa. Salvadori now gives a complete account of theste 

 collections, made at various points along the northern coast 

 of New Guinea, and during the celebrated excursion to Mount 

 Arfak, altogether embracing 499 individuals, referable to 180 

 species. Of these 25 were new to science, 13 of which were 

 described by Sclater, and 12 by Salvadori. 



55. Sharpe's ' Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum,' 

 vol. iii. 



[Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum, vol. iii. Coliomorphte, 

 containing the families Corvidae, Paradiseidte, Oriolidae, Dicruridse, and 

 Prionopidse. By R. Bowdler Sharpe. 8vo. Loudon : 1877.] 



Mr. Sharpe has now entered upon the most difficult portion 

 of his task — the reduction into systematic order and the de- 

 scription of the extensive group of Passeres, or Passeriformes, 

 as he prefers to term it, which contains the great mass of living 

 birds. Since the time of Latham's ' General History ' no natu- 

 ralist has attempted such a work ; and it is only one who has 

 the resources of a central position and a great national col- 

 lection at his back who could undertake it with any chance 

 of success. 



