Recently published Ornithological Works. 341 



the Paradise-birds is now before us, and contains ten plates. 

 Amongst these many old friends from Gould's works are 

 recognizable, but several of the illustrations are new, and 

 both sexes of Prionidura newtoniana — a remarkable form of 

 Bower-bird from Queensland"^ — are now figured for the 

 first time. 



Tectonornis is proposed as a new generic name for Scenopceus 

 dentirostris, in consequence of ScenopcBus being preoccupied. 

 The following species are figured : — 



Lycocorax pyrrhoptenis. Paradisea apoda. 



Parotia lawesi. Prioiiodura newtouiana. 



Cicinnurus regius. Xantliomelus aureus. 



Craspedopliora raagnifica. Chlaraydodera orientalis. 



Epimachus meyeri. Tectonornis dentirostris. 



59. Sharjje on the Birds of Yarkand. 



[Scientific Results of the Second Yarkand Mission ; based upon the 

 Collections and Notes of the late Ferdinand Stoliczka, Ph.D. Aves. 

 By R. Rowdier Sharpe, LL.D., RL.S., F.Z.S., &c. Published by order 

 of the Government of India. Folio. Loudon: 1891.] 



. After a long delay, caused mainly by unavoidable circum- 

 stances, we have before us a complete and satisfactory account 

 of the ornithological collections formed by the late Dr. Ferdi- 

 nand Stoliczka during the Second Yarkand Expedition of 

 1873-74. Stoliczka, it will be recollected, died under some- 

 what tragic circumstances on his way back from Yarkand to 

 India on this expedition f. The collections that he made 

 were placed in Mr. Hume's hands, and Mr. Hume, we are 

 told, had actually prepared an account of them, which was 

 unfortunately destroyed while still in MS. The collections 

 were ultimately brought to England along with the great Hume 

 Collection by Dr. Bowdler Sharpe, to whose unwearied exer- 

 tions we are now indebted for the present memoir. In order 

 to increase the value of the report. Dr. Sharpe has included 

 in his list all the species of which specimens were obtained 

 by Dr. Henderson during the first Yarkand Expedition, and 



* Cf. Ibis, 1890, p. 2G4. 



t See 'Nature,' vol. x. p. 185 (1874) 



