Recently published Ornithological Works. 129 



all 21 species are thus added to the Avifauna of the Sooloo 

 group. 



3. Blasius on Birds from Mindanao. 



[Die von Herrn Dr. Platen uud dessen Gemahlin im Sommer 1889 

 bei Daodo auf Mindanao gesammelten Vogel. Von Prof. Dr. Wilh. 

 Blasius. J. f. 0. 1890, p. 144.] 



Dr. W. Blasius received the collection of birds made by 

 Dr. Platen and his wife in Mindanao in the summer of 1889 

 from Herr Nehrkorn for identifieation_, and found amongst 

 them examples of 31 species nevr to the fanna of Mindanao. 

 Of these 31 species 7 {Ptilopyga mindanensis, Mixornis 

 plateni, Micropus nehrkorni, Muscicapula mindanensis, Arach- 

 nothera clarce, Ceijx platena, and Ceyx margarethae) are 

 regarded as new to science^ and were described in the 

 ' Braunschweigische Anzeige ' of March and April last. 

 Their characters are now repeated. The separate copy before 

 us is dated August Ist^ 1890. 



4. Brusina on the Birds of Croatia and Slavonia. 



[Motriocem pticjega Svijeta. Naputak i popis Domacih ptica. Sas- 

 tavio S. Brusina. Glasnika Hrv. Naravoslov. Druztva v.] 



A resume in French, appended to this memoir, informs us 

 ■that it contains a translation of the instructions of the Com- 

 mittees of Austria and Hungary and of that of Dr. R. Blasius 

 as regards preparations for the Ornithological Congress of 

 1891 at Budapest. This is followed by a complete list of the 

 birds of Croatia, Slavonia, and Dalmatia, together with 

 those of Istria, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Servia, and Montenegro 

 — that is, of all the Croato-Servian provinces. In this series 

 408 species are enumerated. Of 304 of them, the author 

 informs us, the National Zoological Museum of Agram 

 possesses well-mounted examples, which number altogether 

 nearly 3000 specimens. 



5. BUttikofer on Birds from Liberia, 



[Zoological Researches in Liberia. On a series of Birds collected by 

 Mr. A. T. Demery in the district of Grand Cape Mount. By J. Biitti- 

 kofer. Notes Leyd. Mas. xii. p. 197.] 



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