618 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



103. Meyer on some Pigeons from Borneo and the Philippines. 



[Ueber einige Tauben von Borneo und den Philippinen. Von A. B. 

 Meyer. J. f. O. 1891, p. 69.] 



Dr. Meyer describes as new Ptilopus bangueyensis, from 

 Banguey Island, between Borneo and Palawan ; P. purpu- 

 reinucha, from Basilan ; and Treron fulvicollis baramensis 

 (subsp. nov.), from N.W. Borneo. These are all based on 

 specimens in the Dresden Museum. Examples oi Leucotreron 

 leclancheri have been received from Cebu. 



104. Oustalet on the Breeding of Penguins. 



[Les Manchots du Cap de Bonne-Esperance au Jardin d'Acclimatation 

 de Paris. La Nature, xix. p. 365 (May 9th, 1891).] 



We are much pleased to find that M. Oustalet has recorded 

 some of the principal facts relating to the breeding of the 

 Penguins in the Jardin d'Acclimatation [cf. supra, p. 476) in 

 the article above cited. It appears that the date of the breed- 

 ing of this bird, in captivity at least, is very variable. In- 

 cubation lasts five weeks^ and the young are fed by degorge- 

 ment of half-digested food from the digestive tube of the 

 parents^ as is the case with the Cormorants (cf. P. Z. S. 1882, 

 p. 458). 



We must, however, take exception to M. Oustalet's state- 

 ment that Spheniscus demersus is also found in the Falkland 

 Islands, The South-American bird, Spheniscus magellanicus, 

 is closely allied, but quite distinct. See Zool. Voy. Chall. ii. 

 p. 125, pis, xxvii., xxviii., where both species are described 

 and figured. 



105. W. K. Parker on the Morphology of the Gallinacea. 



[On the Morphology of the Gallinacese. By W. Kitchen Parker, 

 F.R.S. Trans. Linn. Soc, Zool. v. p. 213.] 



This is another of Parker's series of memoirs on the 

 " Common Fowl " and its allies, and is, we suppose, the last 

 fragment we can ever expect to receive from his accumulated 

 stores of knowledge on this subject. The Fowl was first 

 dealt with in a well-known essay in the ' Philosophical Trans- 



