166 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



23. RodcPs ' Birds of Cornwall' 



[The Birds of Cornwall and the Seilly Islands. By the late Edward 

 Hearle Kodd. Edited, with an Introduction, Appendix, and brief Me- 

 moir, by James Edmund Harting ; with Portrait and Map. 8vo. London, 

 Trubner & Co. : 1880.] 



At the time of his lamented death it was generally under- 

 stood that Mr. Rodd had in preparation a general work upon 

 the birds of his native county. This work^ however, as we 

 are now informed by Mr. Harting, had only so far advanced 

 as to " consist of a transcript of various notes on the orni- 

 thology of Cornwall, communicated by the author to the 

 pages of the ' Zoologist/ arranged in chronological sequence.''^ 

 " It was obvious/" Mr. Harting remarks, " that in order to 

 render these notes of practical utility it was necessarry to 

 recast and rewrite the whole."" 



This has been ably executed by the editor; and we have 

 now Mr. Rodd"s interesting and original observations, which 

 were continued over a period of nearly forty years, reduced 

 into method and order. 



24. Salvadori's ' Prodromus,' Part 9. 



[Prodromus Ornithologise Papnasiae et Moluccarum. — IX. Meuuridffi, 

 Gerthiidaj, Nectariuiidse, Dic0eida3, Meliphagid*. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genov. 

 xvi. pp. 62-82.] 



Prof. Salvadori enumerates 1 Menurirlae, 2 Certhiidfe, 17 

 Nectariniid?e, 23 Dicseidffi, and 80 Meliphagidse as belonging 

 to the Papuan Fauna. The folloAving genera are newly 

 used: — Urocharis (Dica3idse), type U. longicauda, Salvad. 

 Meliarchus (Meliphagidae), type M. sclatej'i, G. R. Gray 

 Pycnopi/gius (Meliphagidse), type P. stictocephalus , Salvad. 

 Philemonopsis (Meliphagidse) , type P. meyeri, Salvad. These 

 genera are shortly characterized. Two new species of Ptilotis 

 are named P. montana (from Mount Arfak) a,nd P.Jlavirictus 

 (from the Fly River) . 



25. Schlegel's 'Museum des Pays-Bas." 



[Museum d'Histoire Naturelle des Pays-Bas. Par H. Schlegel. Revue 



