144 Recently published Ornilholoyical Works. 



since, has only lately come under our notice, contains a 

 complete account of the birds of the Marianne group, lying 

 in the Pacific, north of the Carolines. Although the Mari- 

 annes were visited by the French Expeditions of the 

 'Uranie' in 1819 and of the 'Astrolabe' in 18'28, it is to 

 M. Alfred Marche — a well-known explorer who has pre- 

 viously visited the Gaboon and the Philippines — that the 

 National Museum of France is indebted for its splendid 

 series of the mammals and birds of these islands, upon which 

 the present memoir is principally based. M. Marche passed 

 nearly two years in the various islands, and transmitted home 

 during that period 732 specimens of Mammals and Birds. 



After adding to the list the names of the few other species 

 recorded by previous authors, M. Oustalet is thus enabled to 

 register 47 birds as belonging to the avifauna of the Mari- 

 annes. Of these he gives us in every case exact and elaborate 

 particulars. The general facies of the Ornis of this group 

 is shown to be essentially Polynesian. About 11 species are 

 peculiar to it, and of these the Meliphagine form Cleptornis 

 marchei is even generically different. 



A coloured illustration is given of Ftilotis marchei. 



20. Oustalet on Birds from Setchuan. 



[Observations siir quelques Oiseaux du Setchuan et description d'especes 

 nouvelles ou pen conuues. Par M. E. Oustalet. Bull. Mus. d'Hist. nat. 

 1898, p. 221.] 



M. Biot, who had previously sent many specimens of birds 

 from Setchuan and Yunnan to Paris, has lately transmitted 

 to the Museum an important series of examples obtained by 

 the members of the Mission at Ta-tsien-lou. M. Oustalet 

 Avrites specially on eight of them, among which is a very 

 tine new Calliope proposed to be called C. davidi, and a 

 Trochalopteron to be named T. styani if it be not the 

 T. cinereiceps of Styan. 



21. Oustalet on new Birds from China and Indo-China. 



[Description decinc[Especes nouvelles d'Oiseaux appartenant au Museum 



