Recently published Ornithological Works. 277 



Dr. Einar Lonnberg. Bihang k. Svensk. Vet.-Ak. Handl. xxii. Afd. iv. 



No. 1.] 



The Zoological Museum of the University of Upsala still 

 contains a certain number of specimens of vertebrated 

 animals which were there in the clays of Linnaeus. Some of 

 these are the actual specimens from which Linnaeus took his 

 descriptions^ and therefore true types of the species based 

 upon them. Others have been known to Linnaeus and were 

 under his care, " so that the determinations of these speci- 

 mens, when they agree with the descriptions in the ' Systema 

 Naturae,' have a certain authority/' 



Dr. Lonnberg discusses all these specimens, which belong 

 mostly to the Classes of Reptiles, Batrachians, and Fishes. 

 But there are some Birds among them (see pp. 29, 33), so 

 that the ornithologist should not neglect to consult Dr. Lcinu- 

 berg's memoir. 



46. Lorenz on the Nestor Parrots. 



[Uebor die Nestor-Papageien. Von Dr. L. v. Loreiiz. Verb. k.-k. 

 zool.-bot. Gesell. Wien, 1896.] 



At a meeting of the Zoological and Botanical Society of 

 Vienna last year. Dr. L. v. Lorenz exhibited the original 

 specimen (formerly in the Museum Leverianum) upon which 

 Latham based his " Southern Brown Parrot" in 1781, and 

 Psittacus nestor in 1790, but to which also Gmelin attributed 

 the name Ps. meridionalis in 1788, and Shaw that of Psittacus 

 australis in 1792. This specimen agrees perfectly with ex- 

 amples lately obtained by Herr Reischek in the Southern 

 Island of New Zealand. Dr. Lorenz is therefore of opinion 

 that the southern form of Nestor should be called Nestor 

 meridionalis instead of N. montanus, and proposes to name the 

 corresponding form of the Northern Island N. septentrionalis 



47. Lucas on the Cranium of Pallas's Cormorant. 



[Contributions to tbe Natural History of the Commander Islands. — 

 XI. The Cranium of Pallas's Cormorant. By Frederic A, Lucas. Proc. 



U.S. Nat. Mus. xviii. p. 717, 1896.] 



Mr. Lucas describes and figures the cranium of the extinct 



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