Recently published Ornithological Works. 337 



which he appears to have devoted special attention. But it 

 contains an " Annotated List of Birds/^ and in this is a de- 

 scription of a new subspecies of "Dwarf Screech-Owl/^ 

 proposed to be called '' Megascops flammeolus* (sic!) idaho- 

 ensiSy" founded on a single specimen. 



48. Meyer on Birds from New Guinea and New Britain. 

 [Ueber Vogel von Neu-Guinea und Neu-Biitannien. Von A. B. 



Meyer. Abhandl. k. zool. u. anthrop. Mus. Dresden, 1890-91, no. 4.] 



The subjects of this essay are selected from collections 

 made in New Guinea and New Britain by the well-known 

 naturalist Kubary and the brothers Geisler, and forwarded 

 to the Dresden Museum. Among 89 birds included in the 

 list, 12 species and subspecies are characterized as new to 

 science. These are Geoffroyus orientalis, Lorius sahadorii, 

 Tanysiptera galatea rubiensis, Monarcha melanonotus auran- 

 tiacus, Graucalus stephani, Rhectes brunneicaudus, JEluroedus 

 geislerorum, Carpopjhaga zoece orientalis, C. westermanni astro- 

 labiensis, Megapodius brunneiventris, Talegallus longicaudus, 

 and Porphyrio neobritannicus. All these new forms are from 

 Kaiser- Wilhelra's-land, except the Tanysiptera, which was 

 obtained at Rubi, in the Bay of Geelvink, and the Porphyrio, 

 which is from New Britain. Critical notes and exact loca- 

 lities are given concerning the remaining species. The 

 memoir is of a like nature with, and supplementary to, the 

 paper by the same author published in this Journal for 1890 

 (abis/ 1890, p. 412). 



49. North on Australian Nests and Eggs. 



[Supplement to the Catalogue of " Nests and Egg3 of Birds found 

 breeding in Australia and Tasmania." By A. J. North. Records of the 

 Austr. i\[u3. vol. i. no. 6. Sydney : 1891.] 



In these notes the nesting of several interesting species is 



* '"'• Flammcola^'' is a substantive — a diminutive of "^«??j?na." There 

 is no such word in Latin as '■'■ fiammeolus.^'' Even according to the prin- 

 ciples of the A. O. U. (which decliue to conform to the recognized rules 

 of grammar), it would be incorrect to make this change, as Kaup called 

 the typical species Scops JJammeola. (See Trans. Zool. Soc. iv. p. 226.) 

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