260 Recent Literature. [April 



Birds of the Cairns District, Queensland. No. 1. By G. M. Mathews. 



A Sketch of the Life of Samuel White. By S. A. White. 



Ornithologisches Jahrbuch. 1 XXV, Heft 3-4. May- August, 1914, 

 (October 27, 1914.) [In German.] 



Review of Bird Migration in Ascania Nova, Taurien Govt., Southern 

 Russia. By H. Grote. 



On the Birds of the Irkutsk Govt. By H. Johansen. — Hypotriorchis 

 subbuteo irkutensis (p. 83) subsp. nov. Dorfe Omoloi (Kreis Kirensk). 



Remarks and Criticisms on Publications on Certain Species of Birds of 

 the Canaries. By R. von Thanner. 



Journal fiir Ornithologie. 2 62, Heft 4. October, 1914. [In German.] 



The Phylogeny of the Thrushes. By J. Gengler (concluded). 



Contributions to the Ornithology of Prussian Schlesia. By C. Keyser 

 (concluded). 



Birds of the Middle Kergisensteppe. By P. P. Suschkin (concluded). 



South Somaliland as a Zoogeographic Division. By O. Graf Zedlitz. — 

 List of 98 species (continued in January number to 194 species). 



Journal fiir Ornithologie. 63, Heft 1. January, 1915. 



Some New Forms of Central African Birds in the Grauer Collection. 

 By Moriz Sassi— Hyliota slatini (p. 112), Beni; Phyllastrephus lorenzi 

 (p. 112), Moera; Geocichla princei graueri (p. 113), Moera; G. gurneyi 

 oberlanderi (p. 115), Beni-Mawambi; G. g. tanganjicae (p. 116), Urwald; 

 Cossypha bocagei albimentalis (p. 117), Urwald. 



On a Small Collection of Birds from Northern Mesopotamia. By O. 

 Neumann. 



New Species. By A. Reichenow. — Oreopsittacus arfaki intermedins 

 (p. 124), New Guinea; Centropus senegalensis tschadensis (p. 124), Tschad 

 district, Central Africa; Aethomyias nigrifrons (p. 124), New Guinea; 

 Microeca poliocephala (p. 124), New Guinea; Pachycephala hypoleuca 

 p. 125), New Guinea; Melanorhectes umbrinus (p. 125), New Guinea; 

 Ploceus melanolcema (p. 125), Fernando Po.; Zosterops setschuana (p. 125), 

 Ta-tsieng-lu-ting in Setschuan; Cleptornis palauensis (p. 125), Palau; 

 Melirrhophetes rufocrissalis (p. 126), New Guinea; Melilestes chloreus 

 (p. 126), New Guinea; Philemonopsis meyeri canescens (p. 126), New 

 Guinea; Ptilotis simplex (p. 126), New Guinea; Xanthotis chlorolcema 

 (p. 127), New Guinea; X. melanolcema (p. 127), New Guinea; Thelazo- 

 menus n. gen. (p. 127), allied to Xanthotis, type T. pcecilocercus (p. 127), 

 New Guinea; Chalcomitra adamauce (p. 127), Adamaua; C. tanganjicce 

 (p. 128), Urwald; Phyllastrephus leucolcema camerunensis (p. 128), Duma, 

 Cameroons. Camaroptera caniceps (p. 128), Duma; Crateroscelis virgata 

 (p. 128), New Guinea; C. albigula (p. 128), New Guinea; Pseudopitta n. 

 gen. (p. 129) type Eupetes incertus Salvad; Crateropus jardinei hypobrun- 



1 Edited by Victor Ritter Tschusi zu Schmidhoffen, Hallein, Salzburg Austria. 



2 Edited for the German Ornithological Society by Dr. A. Reichenow. L. A. 

 Kittler, Leipzig, Agent. 



