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IX. — Notices of recent Ornithological Publications. 



1. Barboza du Bocage on West-African Birds. 



[Aves das possessoes portugezas da Africa occidental. Por J. V. Bar- 

 boza du Bocage. Vigesima tei'cera lista. Jorn. de Sc. Math., Phys. e Nat. 

 Lisboa, no. xxxiii. 1882.] 



Prof. Barboza du Bocage's twenty-third article on the 

 birds of the Portuguese possessions in West Africa gives an 

 account of a collection of 55 specimens of birds made by 

 Sr. Anchieta at Caconda and Ca90CO in the first three months 

 of 1882. The species exemplified in this series are 35 in 

 number, amongst which the most remarkable are Pernis 

 apivorus and Cotile cincta. 



2. Bean on Birds from Alaska and Siberia. 



[Notes on Birds collected during the Summer of 1880 in Alaska and 

 Siberia. By Tarleton H. Bean. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 1882, p. 144.] 



The collection was made while the writer was engaged in 

 investigating the fisheries of Alaska, and contains examples 

 of 77 species, several of which are of great interest. Mota- 

 cilla ocularis, Budytes flavus, and Eurinorhynchus pygmeeus 

 were obtained in Plover Bay. Six examples of Saxicola 

 cenanthe were found between Port Clarence and Cape Lis- 

 burne. Larus marinus, previously unknown in Alaska, was 

 met with in abundance, and Diomedea melajiophrys was ob- 

 served in 40° 30' N. lat., 112° 23' W. long., about 1000 

 miles west of Cape Mendocino, California. Fine series of 

 Melospiza fasciata rvfina and M. cinerea were collected. 



3. Bolau on the Ornis of Eastern Siberia. 



[Beitrag- zuv Kenntniss der ostsibirischen Vogelwelt. Von Dr. Heinr. 

 Bolau. J. f. O. 1882, p. 329.] 



The brothers Dorries, in May 1880, moved their collecting- 

 station to KessakefE, at the confluence of tlie Ussuri with 

 the Amoor, being the same as that occupied by Herrn Dy- 

 bowski and Godlewski in 1873-74, of whose collection M. 

 Taczanowski gave an account in the Journ. f. Orn. for 1875, 



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