450 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



Can it be really Tardus merula, or is it not more probably 

 T. torquatus? We would ask any member of the B. O. U. 

 that goes to Vienna to endeavour to settle this point. 



85. Everett on the Birds of Borneo. 



[A List of the Birds of the Bornean Group of Islands. By A. H. 

 Everett, C.M.Z.S. Journ. Straits Branch Royal Asiatic Soc. Singapore, 

 No. 20, 1889, p. 91.] 



Mr. Everett's useful list contains the names and references 

 of 570 species now known to be found in Borneo and in its 

 dependent islands, embracing Balabac, Palawan, the Cala- 

 mines, and the Cuyo Islands. Much, however, still has to 

 be done, especially in exploring the eastern, south-western, 

 and central districts of Borneo itself and the outlying islands, 

 before our knowledge of its avifauna can be deemed to be 

 anything like complete. 



Summing up his list, Mr. Everett tells us that " no family 

 of birds is exclusively confined to the Bornean group, and 

 but few genera, even, are peculiar. Allocotops, Chlor o charts , 

 Androphilus, and Ptilopyga among the Timeliidae, Trico- 

 phoropsis and Oreoctistes among the Brachypodidee, Pity- 

 riasis (?) among the Laniidse, Chlamydochcera among the 

 Campophagidse, Heteroscops among the Bubonidse, Lobio- 

 phasis among the Phasianidse, aud Hmnatortyx among 

 the Tetraonidae all appear to be peculiar to the island of 

 Borneo alone ; while we have Ptilocichla among the Time- 

 liidse and Dryococcyx among the Cuculidse restricted appa- 

 rently to the Palawan subgroup." Of the species, however, 

 a considerable proportion seem to be exclusively confined to 

 the group, and Mr. Everett gives us a list of 140 thus 

 restricted . 



86. Hargitt on the Picidse. 



[Catalogue of the Picariee in the Collection of the British Museum. 

 Scansores, containing the Family Picidse. By Edward Hargitt. 8vo. 

 London: 1890.] 



The 18th volume of the Catalogue of Birds has been issued 

 in advance of the 16th and 17th. It is devoted to the Picidie 



