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XI. — Notices of Recent Ornithological Publications. 



1. Anderson on the Birds of the Mergui Archipelago. 



[List of Birds, chiefly from the Mergui Archipelago, collected for the 

 Trustees of the Indian Museum. By John Anderson, M.D., LL.D., 

 F.R.S. Journ. Linn. Soc, (Zool.) vol. xxi. p. 136.] 



Dr. Anderson gives us a list of the birds of whicli speci- 

 mens were obtained during his expedition to the Mergui 

 Archipelago. The islands in which the collections were 

 mostly made are King Island^ Elphinstone Island, and 

 Sullivan Island. As might have been expected, the species 

 are nearly wholly the same as those of the adjoining main- 

 land, Butreron cappelli being the only one additional to the 

 Fauna of Tenasserim. Major Wardlaw Ramsay has revised 

 the identifications. 



2. Berlepsch on the Birds of Paraguay. 



[Systematisches Verzeichniss der von Herrn Ricardo Rohde in Para- 

 guay gesammelten Vogel. Von Hans von Berlepsch. J. f. O. 1887, 

 pp. 1, 113.] 



This excellent memoir is based upon a collection of about 

 229 specimens of birds made by Mr. Rohde in Paraguay, 

 which are referred to 116 species. Of these, Thamnophilus 

 rohdei is described and figured as new, while many important 

 critical notes are given upon the identification and nomen- 

 clature of the other species. 



As shown in Graf v. Berlepsch^s introductory remarks, 

 the study of the birds of Paraguay is of special importance 

 to ornithologists as necessary for the accurate identification 

 of the birds of that country described by Azara at the 

 beginning of the present century ; for, although these 

 birds were provided with Spanish names only by Azara, upon 

 these Spanish names Latin terms were subsequently based 

 by Temminck, Vieillot, Lichtenstein, Merrem, and others, 

 which have in many cases been subsequently misapplied to 

 the representative species of the surrounding countries. A 

 careful examination of the Paraguay birds has therefore 

 become of primary necessity for the correction of these errors. 



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