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ters as Hl. indus, gtrrenera,; that of Malacca as H. indus, girrenera. 
This method could be carried to any degree of refinement, and is certainly 
less complex than the use of a quadrinomial such as Haléastur indus gir- 
renera ambiguus,” —the latter a name applied to the New Guinea form 
by Briiggeman. They add ina footnote: ‘‘ We are not so sanguine as 
to believe, that our brother ornithologists will adopt our innovations of 
nomenclature, but we trust that future ‘rules of nomenclature’ will also 
take into consideration cases like this, and make some proposition which 
can be generally adopted.” The suggestion is worthy of consideration, 
as the matter is one with which other workers have had to struggle, 
though as yet they have hardly dared to introduce innovations respecting it. 
As a source of general information on the birds of Celebes and neigh- 
boring islands, this admirable work will ever remain an authority, not 
only on the technicalities of the subject but on the habits and distribu- 
tion of the species. —J. A. A. 
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Finsch, Otto. (1) Ona Collection of Birds made by Mr. Karl Schadler 
at Sekru, northwest coast of New Guinea. (Notes from the Leyden Mus. 
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