120 Recently published Ornithological Works, 



15. Gtulow on Phalacrocorax harrisi. 



[The Wing's and Skeleton of Phalacrocorax harrisi. By II. Gadow. 



Nov. Zool. ix. p. 109.] 



Dr. Gadow describes the wings and the skeleton of the 

 great flightless Cormorant of the Galapagos, Phalacrocorax 

 harrisi, discovered in 1897 (see Ibis, 1900, p. 206), and points 

 out its extraordinary peculiarities. 



This Cormorant lias the functional primaries reduced to 

 nine and the secondaries to fifteen in number; the bones of 

 the wing, moreover, are much inferior in length and strength 

 to those of the ordinary species. Other differences are care- 

 fully pointed out and illustrated by two plates. 



16. Hartert on his Travels and Researches. 



[Aus den Wanderjahren eines Naturforschers. Von Ernst Hartert. 

 ll te , III tc , & IV te Absclmitt. Nov. Zool. ix. pp. 193-272.] 



Mr. Hartert continues, and brings to a conclusion, the 

 very interesting account of his travels and expeditions in 

 various parts of the world, of which we have already noticed 

 the first portion (cf. Ibis, 1902, p. 150). 



The first of the three sections now given relates to Sumatra, 

 Malacca, and India. As regards Sumatra, the author gives 

 a complete list of the birds as yet recorded — from his own 

 researches and those of others — to occur in the vicinity of 

 Deli, and enumerates 212 species, adding many valuable 

 notes. There are no less than nine Hornbills in this district, 

 among which are some of the largest and the most remark- 

 able of the family, such as Buceros rhinoceros and Rhinojilux 

 vigil. The third chapter of the second section is devoted to 

 Salanga, an island off the south coast of the Malay Peninsula, 

 which the author visited in 1888. It seems to be a most 

 attractive place. Its avifauna had been already worked at 

 by Aug. Miiller (v. J. f. O. 1882), but Mr. Hartert was 

 able to make some additions. 



Mr. Hartert then proceeded to the protected State of 

 Perak (where our friend Sir Hugh Low first introduced the 

 pax Britannic a) and found it a " paradise for zoologists," 



