Recently published Ornitholuyical Works. 053 



Salvadori and Festa on Tripulilane Birds. 



[Alcuni uccelli della Ch'enaica, colla descrizione di una imova specie 

 del geuere Caccabis. Nota di T. Salvadori ed E. Festa. Boll. Mas. 

 Zool. Auat. Conip. Torino, xxxi. 191C, no. 714, pp. 1-2.] 



This note contains the names of some twelve species 

 collected by an Italian officer in Cyrenaica and presented 

 to the Turin Museum. The only noteworthy form is a 

 new species or rather subspecies of lied-legged Partridge 

 allied to Caccabis spatzi oi Tunis and Algeria, but differing, 

 in its darker and more bluish throat and chin. Messrs. 

 Salvadori and Festa distinguish this form under the name 

 of C. callolcema. Four examples of this new Partridge were 

 obtained to the south of Bengasi. 



Stresemami on the Eastern Black Crows. 



[tJber die Fornien der Gruppe Corvus coronoides Vig. & Horsf. 

 . Yon Erwin Streseinann. Verliaiidl. Oriiith. Ges. iiayern, xii. 1916, 

 pp. 377-404.] 



Through a neutral country we have received a copy of 

 Mr. Stresemann's paper on the subspecific forms of the 

 Australian Crow, Corvus coronoides. 



The investigations on which the work is based weie ail 

 made in England in IQIS-IJ; on material contained in the 

 British and Tring Museums, and in Mr. G. M. Mathews' 

 collection ; to all of whom due acknowledgment is made. 



The lirst portion of the paper contains a review of the 

 various forms of Corvus coronoides whicli,, as a species, is 

 spread over the whole of eastern and southern Asia and 

 Australia. Twenty subspecific forms are recognized and 

 three of these are described for the first time — C. c. con- 

 nectens, Loochoo Isls., C. c. niadaraszi, Ceylon, and C. c. 

 hainanus, Hainan. 



In the second half of the paper, INIr. Stresemann endeavours 

 to trace the evolution of these various forms from what 

 he regards as the primitive stock of the species, namely 

 C. c. hassi, the form found in northern China, whence he 

 believes it spread northwards to Manchuria and Japan, 

 south-westwards to India and Ceylon, and south-eastwards 



