Recently published Ornithological Works. 125 



the 'Papers and Proceedings' of the Royal Society of 

 Tasmania. A short preface explains the causes of the 

 poverty of the Tasmanian avifauna. 



21. Madardsz on a new Blue-throat. 



[Ein neues Blaukehlchen. Von Dr. Julius v. Madarasz. Term6szet. 

 Fiizetek, xxv. p. 489.] 



The new Cyanecula discessa is founded on five specimens 

 collected by M. Harms in Transcaspia and Persia ; it is 

 nearest to C. suecica, but the throat is " flax-blue." The 

 range of C. suecica is generally considered to extend into 

 Cashmere and Northern India, so it would be curious to find 

 a distinct species in Transcaspia (cf. Radde, Orn. Caucas. 

 p. 249). 



22. Mearns on Three new North- American Birds. 



[Descriptions of Three new Birds from tlie Southern United States. 

 By Edgar A. Mearns. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxiv. pp. 915-926, 1902.] 



Two of these forms, Coturniculus savannarum floridanus 

 and Progne subis floridana, are, as their names denote, from 

 Florida ; while the third, Sitta carolinensis nelsoni, is from 

 the wooded mountains of Chihuahua and Sonora and of 

 the adjacent States of N. America. 



We confess that we are a little uneasy about the rapid 

 growth of the list of North- American " subspecies/' 



23. Neumann on the Results of his last African Expedition. 



[Kurze Mitteilung fiber die zoologischen Besultate meiner Expedition 

 durch Nordost-Afrika, 1900-1901. Von Oscar Neumann. Jena, 1902.] 



Herr Neumann gives us here an account of his expedition 

 to the western and southern districts of Abyssinia and Somali- 

 land, of which the fauna has been much less investigated 

 than that of the eastern portions. From Gjildessa and the 

 mountainous woodlands of Gara Mulata to the south-west of 

 Harrar he proceeded to the Erer and Ilawash valleys, and so 

 to the Blue Nile and the Kaffa Province. He lays stress on 

 the palaearctic species of birds which he found in the northern 



