138 Recently publisked Ornithological Works. 



13. Meyer on the Proceedings of the Deutsche Ornit/io- 

 logische Gesellschaft. 



[Der Deutschen ornithologischen Gesellschaft in Dresden vom 28.-30, 

 Mai 1897. No. 2. Aus der 22. Jahresversammlung. Herausgegeben von A. 

 B. Meyer. Abhandl. u. Ber. zool. anthrop. Mus. Dresden, 1898-99, p. 1.] 



Dr. Meyer has devoted a number of the ' Abhandlungen ' 

 of the Royal Zoological^ Anthropological, and Ethnographical 

 Museum of Dresden to an account of the proceedings of the 

 Anniversary Meeting of the German Ornithological Society 

 held at Dresden in 1897, or rather to such of them as have 

 not been already published in the ' Journal f. Orn.' and 

 elsewhere. Among them we find an interesting narrative 

 by Dr. Koenig of his recent ornithological tour up the Nile, 

 duiing which he collected some 700 birdskins. Dr. Koenig 

 met with Rhynchops first on April 7th near Nagh Haraadi, 

 and obtained altogether 14 specimens. Herr v. Biederman 

 gives copies (plate i. figs. 2, 3) of the two newly-discovered 

 pictures of the Dodo in tlie Dresden Gallery, and a list of 

 the figures of the Dodo (12 in all) previously known to exist. 

 There are also several papers on questions of nomenclature and 

 other subjects, and an account of the great " demonstration " 

 of Paradise-birds (held May 30th), when the fine series of these 

 birds in the Leyden Museum was supplemented by specimens 

 from Tring, Berlin, Milan, Genoa, and other museums. 

 Altogether this is a very attractive publication for ornitho- 

 logists. 



14. Meyer and Wiglesivorth : ' Birds of Celebes.' 



[The Birds of Celebes and Neighbouring Islands. By A. B. Meyer and 

 L. W. Wiglesworth. Pp. i-xxxiii, 1-962. 2 vols. Imperial 4to. 

 Berlin : R. Friedlander & Sohn, 1898.] 



The island of Celebes is of special interest to students of 

 geographical distribution because it lies between two of the 

 great zoological Regions — the Oriental on the north and the 

 Australian on the south — and has been referred by some 

 authorities to the first and by others to the last of these 

 Regions. It was, therefore, an inviting subject for an 



