118 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



"writers were naturally anxious to vindicate the claims of their 

 respective collectors to their discoveries. Besides the six new 

 species described in the ' Braunschweigische Anzeiger/ of 

 which Dr. Blasius has already spoken in his letter, Turnix 

 haynaldi and Carpophaga cenea palawanensis are now described 

 as new for the first time. 



12. W. Blasius on Birds from Great Sanghir. 



[Vogel von Gross-Saiigliir, Von Dr. WiUi, Blasius. Bi'aunschwei- 

 gisclie Anzeiger, 1888, no. 9, Jan, llth.] 



Dr. W. Blasius kindly sends us a copy of the ' Braun- 

 schweigische Anzeiger ' for Jan. 1 1th, 1888. The report there 

 given of the sitting of the " Verein fiir Naturwissenschaf t ** 

 on Jan. 5th contains short characters of three new species of 

 birds discovered by Dr. and Mrs. Platen in the island of Great 

 Sanghir. These are named Ninox macroptera, Zosterops 

 nehrko7'ni, and Criniger plateyice. 



Dr. Blasius has since published an elaborate memoir on 

 all the birds obtained by Dr. and Mrs. Platen in the Sanghir 

 Islands. See ' Ornis/ 1888, p. 527, '' Die Vogel von Gross- 

 Sanghir.*' 



13. Brusina on the Birds of Croatia. 



[Ornitolozke biljezke za Hrvatsku Faimu. Svezauj Prvi. Sakupio S, 

 Brusina. Glasnika lirv. Naravoslovnoga Druztva. (See. Ilist.-Nat. 

 Croatica, iii. p. 129.).] 



We regret that ignorance of the Sclavonic languages pre- 

 vents us from saying more than that this paper seems to 

 refer mainly to the occurrence of thi-ee species iu Croatia, 

 namely, Syrrhaptes paradoxus, Fratercula arctica, and Alca 

 tor da. 



14. Forbes on Attempts to reach the Oiven Stanley Peak. 



[On Attempts to reach the Owen Stanley Peak : a Eeportto the Royal 

 Scottish Geographical Society on the New Guinea Expedition. By 

 Henry 0. Forbes. (Reprinted from the Scottish Geographical Magazine 



for August 1888.).] 



All persons interested in New Guinea (amongst whom all 



