580 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



Mr. Ridgway finds it necessary to establish five new species 

 of this group — Geospiza pachyrhyncha, G. fatiyata, Cama- 

 rhynchus bindloei, C. compressirostris, and C. incertus. 



118. Ridgivay on a new Subspecies 0/ Fenced ramus, 



[Description of a new Subspecies of the Genus Peiicedranms, Coues. 

 By Robert Ridgway. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xviii. p. 441.] 



The Guatemalan form of Peucedramus, hitherto referred 

 to P. olivaceus (Giraud), is separated as P. 0. aurantiacus, 

 subsp. nov. 



119. Rothschild and Hartert on the Birds of the Papuan 

 Islands. 



[Contributions to the Ornitliology of the Papuan Islands. By tbe 

 Hon. Walter Rotbscbild and Ernst Hartert. I, List of three small 

 Collections from British New Guinea, mostly brought together in the 

 Owen Stanley Mountains. — II. Note on two niore specimens of Astrapia 

 splendidissima. — III. On the forms of Macropterxjx mystacea. Nov. Zool. 

 vol. iii. pt. i. March 1896.] 



These articles, in which the Paradiseidee, Ptilonorhynchidse, 

 and Rallidse are treated of by IMr. Rothschild and the remain- 

 ing groups by IVIr. Hartert, contain many valuable additions 

 to our knowledge of Papua and its islands. 



In the first we have an account of two collections made in 

 British New Guinea, in the district of the Owen Stanley 

 IVIountains, by IVIr. Rothschild's collector, Anthony, and of 

 a third from high elevations in the Victoria district. Among 

 a number of rare Paradise-birds and Bower-birds, specimens 

 were procured of Drepanornis albertisi cervinicauda, Scl. ; 

 Astrarchia stephanice, Finsch ; Paradisornis rudolphi, Finsch 

 et IMey. ; Parotia lawesi, Rams. ; Amblyornis subalaris, 

 Sharpe ; and a female of Loria marice. A plate is given to 

 illustrate the diiferences between A. inornata, A. subalaris, 

 and A. flavifrons. ]Mr. Rothschild now unites A. macgre- 

 gorice, De Vis, and A. musgraviana, Goodwin, to A. inornata; 

 he also separates the Jobi form of Cicinnurus regius as 

 C. regius coccineifrons , subsp, nov. A perfect skin of 

 Paramythia montium was procured on ]\Iount Victoria. 

 Mr. Hartert finds that the outer primary is not quite absent 

 in this bird, though much reduced (cf. Sclater, 'Ibis,^ 1893, 



