Recently published Ornithological Works. 4G3 



Dr. Stejneger lias examined a collection of Japanese birds 

 formerly in the Educational Museum of Tokyo^ and recently 

 handed over to the Science College of the Imperial University. 

 This paper contains the notes made during his examination. 

 Among the m,ore interesting species commented upon are 

 Sterna dougalli, Glareola orientalis (new to Japan), Tringa 

 ferruglnea (intell. T. subarquata), Phaethon rubricauda and 

 P. candidus, Ar de a purpurea, Halcyon pileata, Turdus hortu- 

 lorum, and Emberiza leucocephala. 



90. Stejneger on the Cubital Coverts of the Paradise-birds, 



[Notes on the Cubital Coverts in the Birds of Paradise and Bower- 

 birds. By Leonhard Stejneger. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xiv. p. 499.] 



Referring to Mr. Goodchild^s paper '^On the Cubital Coverts 

 of the Euornithes in relation to Taxonomy/''^ Dr. Stejneger 

 asserts that that author is in error in classing the wings of 

 the Paradiseinse as showing the " Cypseline style/' and that 

 these birds "form no exception from the genuine Passerine 

 arrangement of the cubitals.^' In the same way he main- 

 tains, against Mr. GoodchihVs views, that Ptilonorhynclms, 

 exemplifying tlie Bower-birds (which Mr. Goodchild regards 

 as having a Picarian arrangement of the minor coverts), is 

 similar to the Paradise-birds, and typically Passerine in this 

 point. 



91. Taczanowski on the Birds of Eastern Siberia. 



[Faune Ornithologique de la Siberie Orientale. Par le Dr. L. Tac- 

 zanowski. QEuvre posthiime. Pi'emiere partie. Mem. Acad. Imp. So. 

 St. Petersbourg, vii° serie, tome xxxix. (1891).] 



This important work of our much esteemed friend Ladislas 

 Taczanowski, whose loss we have lately had occasion to 

 lament, is published after his death by the Imperial Academy 

 of Sciences of St. Petersburg as a fitting tribute to hi 



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memory. The first part is now issued, and gives us an account 

 of 265 species of Accipitres and Passeres. The second part, 

 still to be issued, will be consecutively paged, and the whole 



* Cf. Ibis, 1891, p. 450. 



