286 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



48. Seebohm on the Nesting of the Spoonbill. 



[A Visit to the Colony of Spoonbills near Amsterdam. By Henry See- 

 bohm, F.Z.S. Zoologist, 1880, p. 457.] 



Mr. Seebolim and Capt. Elwes, on the 23rd May last year, 

 made an excursion to the breeding-place of the Spoonbills on 

 the Horster Meer, between Amsterdam and Utrecht, which 

 was visited by Sclater and Mr. A. W. Forbes in 1877, as 

 already recorded in this Journal (Ibis, 1877, p. 412), and 

 obtained a fine series of eggs. 



49. Sharpe on new Birds from New Guinea. 



[Description of two new Species of Birds from South-eastern New 

 Guinea. By R. Bowdler Sharpe, F.L.S., F.Z.S. , &c., Senior Assistant, 

 Department of Zoology, British Museum. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, 

 vol. iii. p. 31.3.] 



The species are Poecilodryas Jiavicincta and Aprosmictus 

 broadbenti, both in a collection transmitted by Mr. Broadbent. 



50. Sharpe on two new Kingfishers. 



[Description of two remarkable new Species of Kingfishers. By R. 

 Bowdler Sharpe, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c.. Department of Zoology, British Mu- 

 seum. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. vi. p. 2,31.] 



From a collection made by Mr. Charles Huntein on the 

 East Cape, Milne Bay, and its vicinity, Mr. Sharpe describes 

 two fine novelties, Tanysiptera danae, allied to T. nympha, 

 and Clytoceyx rex, something like Dacelo gaudichaudi, but 

 with a much thickened bill. 



XXV. — Letters, Announcements, ^c. 

 We have received the following letters addressed to the 

 Editors of'The Ibis:' — 



Turin, Dec. 28th, 1880. 



Sirs, — Mr. Hume, in the last Nos. 1-3 of ' Stray Feathers,' 



p. 117, mentions my Stachyris bocagei (Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 



xiv. p. 223), and says that he should like very much to know 



how it can be distinguished from Stachyris assimilis, Wald. 



