48 Short Notices of Ornithological Publications. 



XIII. — Short Notices of Ornithological Publications. 



7. TJie Ibis, a Quarterly Journal of Ornithology. 



The January 1910 No. of the premier Ornithological 

 Journal contains the second part of Mr. J. A. S. Bucknill's 

 }iaper on the Birds of Cyprus. The second paper in this 

 No. is one on the Ornithological Collections of the University 

 of Cambridge, by Dr. H. Gadow, M.A., F.R.S., the Strick- 

 land Curator. These include, besides the original Strickland 

 collection of 6006 specimens, eight large and sundry small 

 collections of birds collected by various celebrities and 

 presented to the University Museum. Amongst these we 

 note two names well known to the South-African Orni- 

 thologist, viz., Col. H. W. Feilden and J. H. Gurney. 



Paper No. 4 is a lengthy catalogue of the birds of Northern 

 Rhodesia and the Katanga District of Congoland, by S. A. 

 Neave, M.A., B.Sc, &c., with two coloured plates and a text- 

 figure. The two plates represent two new species, viz. 

 Trochocercus vivax, Neave, and Dryodroynus pearsoni, Neave. 



Mr. Neave says he shot the Blue-spotted and Green- 

 spotted Chalcopelia chalcospilos (Metallic-spotted Dove) 

 within a few days of one another, and that one example had 

 only one purple spot on one wing, while another had several 

 green spots. An example of Otis kori was seen on the Upper 

 Lufupa River, near the watershed. 



Mr. Neave considers, with Mr. Ogilvie-Grant, that Myrme- 

 cocichla nigra is distinct from M. arnotti. 



The April number gives us a continuiition of Mr. Neave's 

 notes on the Birds of Northern Rhodesia and Congoland. 

 A new genus and species is described (Paludijxisser 

 locustella) and figured in a coloured plate by Gronvold. 

 The bill of this species and that of Spermestes scutatus (its 

 nearest ally) are also figured in the text. In this number 

 we also have a long " obituary " notice of the late Dr. Dowdier 

 Sharpe. 



The July number contains a further (the 3rd) contribution 

 on the Ornithology of Cyprus by our one time President and 

 Editor, Mr. Bucknill. 



