650 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



93. Hartert on Hummif iff -birds. 



[Further Notes on Humming-birds. By Ernst Plartert. Novitates 

 Zool. vi. p. 7:2.] 



In this paper on Humming-birds Mr. Hartert cliarac- 

 terizes Spaihura underwoodi bricena as a new subspecies 

 from Merida, and Metallura smaruydinicuUis septentrionalis 

 and Chalcostigma ruficeps aureofastigatum as two new sub- 

 species from Northern Peru ; he also makes remarks on 

 various species of Eriocnemis and Psalidoprymna. 



94. Hartert on Birds from Rossel Island. 



[On the Birds collected by Mr. Meek on Rossel Island in the Louisiade 

 Archipelago. By Ernst Hartert. Novitates Zool. vi. p. 76.] 



We have now a complete list of the 36 species of birds of 

 Avhich IVTr. Meek has obtained examples for the Tring 

 Museum, in Rossel Island. This is the most eastern of the 

 Louisiade group, and Mount Rossel is nearly 3000 feet in 

 height. Mr. Hartert has already described some of the new 

 species in the Bulletin of the B. O. C, but he now adds 

 to tlie list Rhipidura louisiadensis, Gerygone] rosseliana, and 

 Geoffroyus aruensis cyanocarpus. The most remarkable bird 

 of Rossel Island is the Pitta (P. meeki Rothsch.), which is 

 allied to P. mackloti, but has no black gular spot. 



95. Neumann on the Avifauna of German and British 

 East Africa. 



[Beitrjige zur Vogelfauna von Ost-und Central- Africa. Theilii. Vou 

 Oscar Neumann. Journ. f. Orn. 1899, p. 3.3.] 



The second part of Herr Oscar Neumann^s account of the 

 birds collected during his East African expedition of 1892-5 

 relates to the Vultures, Falcons, Owls, Parrots, and Toura- 

 cous, of which he either obtained specimens or identified the 

 species by observation. Many interesting field- notes, besides 

 corrections of nomenclature and other remarks, are introduced 

 into this paper. Of the Falconidse, the two least known 

 species seem to be Astur sparsim-fasciatus — a near relative 

 of ^. tachiro — of which a single specimen (the second known) 



