Short Notices of OrnlUtohxjical Pahl'ieatlnns. HO 



V. Proceedings of the Academy of Xatural Sciences of 

 Philadelphia, \o\. Ix. part i. (1908), contains an interestincr 

 paper by Witnier Stone, on the " Methods of Recording and 

 Utilizing Bird Migration Data.'' He dwells upon the 

 importance of comparing the records of several observers at 

 practically the same locality ; and demonstrates from the 

 records of the Delaware Valley Ornithological Club how 

 regular were the arrivals of many migratory birds. He 

 considers the best and most accurate results obtainable by 

 having a large number of observers in a limited area and 

 combining their results. — This may be possible in a thick!}'- 

 })opulated countrv like America, but here in 8. A. v,e have 

 so far not been able to get one observer in each district. 



VI. Annals of the Transvaal Museum, vol. i. no. 3 



(January I'JOD). 

 This No. contains the following descriptions of new birds, 

 which may not be out of place reproduced herein : — 



Description of Tu-o new Species of Birds in the Transvaal 

 Museum. By Dr. J. W. B. Gunning, Director. 



Anthreptes reichenowi, sp. nov. 



Description : Male. Above pale olive-green, a little ])aler 

 on the upper tail-coverts ; front half of crown, chin, and 

 throat, as far as upper breast, bright metallic idigo-blue with 

 violet reflections ; the edges of the metallic patch more 

 inclined to steel-blue. Lores and a ring round the eye pale 

 yellow, the former shaded with dusky. Wings olive-brown, 

 the feathers being edged with olive-green ; paler on the 

 remiges, inner margins of the latter pale whitish-grey. 



Tail olive-brown, the feathers edged with olive-yellow. 

 Under surface yellow, strongly washed with greyish-olive, 

 particularly on the flanks and sides of the chest. Pectoral 

 tufts pale yellow; axillaries pale yellow; under wing- 

 coverts white tipped with pale yellow, those on carpal bend 

 pale yellow. 



Length lOtJ mm.; wing 53'j ; tail 415; tarsus 15; 

 culmen 15"5. 



