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99. Hartert on Ammomanes lusitanica parvirostris. 



[Berichtigende Bemerkuiig zu Ammomanes lusitanica jjarvii'ostris, 

 nov. suLsp. Von Ernst Hartert. J. f. 0. 1891, p. 110,] 



Herr Hartert now admits that his Ammomanes lusitanica 

 parvirostris (above^ p. 452) is identical with Ammotnanes 

 phcenicuroides (Blyth) of the Catalogue of Birds (xiii. p. 647) . 

 See also his Catalogue (p. 41), mentioned below. 



100. Hartert's Catalogue of the Birds of the Senckenberg 

 Museum. 



[Katalog der Vogelsammlung im Muse am der Sencken'bergischenNatur- 

 forsclienden Gesellschaft in Frankfurt am Main. Von Ernst Hartert. 

 8vo. Frankfurt a. M. : 1891.] 



Herr Hartert has done a good work in preparing a catalogue 

 of the birds of the famous IVIuseum Senckenbergianum of 

 Frankfurt. His list gives the names of 3612 species, with 

 the localities of the specimens and the modes in which they 

 were obtained. Many pertinent footnotes are added. Tri- 

 nomials are freely used, e. g,, Ruticilla phoenicurus mesoleuca 

 and Turdus viscivorus bonapartei, perhaps in such cases not 

 without reason. The systematic arrangement adopted has 

 much to commend it, although we could not follow the author 

 in making Steatornis a genus of the family Podargidse, or 

 in recognizing as a family " Didunculidse.'''' The Order 

 " Crypturi " is queerly placed between the Herons and the 

 Sand-Grouse ; it should go either with the Gallinse, or better 

 at the end of the Carinatse, next to the Ratitse. 



101. Koenig on the Birds of Madeira and the Canaries. 



[Ornitkologisclie Forschungsergebnisse einer Reise nach Madeira und 

 dencanarischenlnseln vonDr. A. Koenig. 8vo. Naumburga/S. (Sonder- 

 abdruck d. J. f. O,, Juli-Oct. Heft, 1890.] 



Dr. A. Koenig has favoured us with a separate copy of his 

 account of his ornithological excursion to Madeira and the 

 Canaries, in which, as we all know, he ran a race with two orni- 

 thologists of the B. O. I J. for the discovery of certain ''new 

 species.^' Whichever of the rivals may be ultimately decided 



