Recently published Ornithological Works. 581 



p. 243). Mr. Hartert also describes as new Pachycephala 

 schlegeli ohscurior, Ptilotis visi, Neopsittacus imllicauda, and 

 Reinivardtcsna reinwardti griseotincta. 



In the second article, Mr. Rothschild announces the receipt 

 at Tring of two more male specimens of the magnificent 

 Astrapia splendidissima, " quite complete." 



In the third, Mr, Hartert discusses the various forms of 

 Macropteryx mystacea, and institutes a new subspecific name, 

 M. m. woodfordiana, for that from the island of Guadalcanar, 

 the New Guinea bird being M. m. typica. 



120. Salvadori on Birds from South-eastern Neio Guinea. 



[Viaggio di Lamberto Loiia nella Papuasia Orientale. — XV. Collezioni 

 Ornitologiche descritte da Tommaso Salvadori. — Nota quarta. Uccelli 

 della Nuova Guinea Meridionale-Orientale. Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. 

 Gen ova, ser. 2, xvi. p. 55.] 



In this — the last of the collections from Dr. Lamberto 

 Loria — we find 187 species enumerated. The following are 

 described as new : — Syma megarhyncha (Moroka) is dis- 

 tinguished from S. torotoro ; jEgotheles rvfescens (Moroka) ; 

 Monarcha heterurus (Vikaiku); Gerygone giuUanettii (Moroka) 

 is distinguished from G. poliocephala ; Pachycephala sharpei 

 (Moroka) ; Euthyrhynchus meyeri (Moroka) ; Sericornis per- 

 sjncillata and ;S^. olivacea (Moroka) ; Eupetes lorite (Moroka) ; 

 Manucodia orientalis (Gerekanumu) ; Diphyllodes xanthoptera 

 (Haveri, Moroka). 



121. Shufeldt on Progress in American Ornithology. 



[Progress in American Ornithology. 1886-95. By R. W. Shufeldt, 

 M.D. Amer. Nat. 1896, p. 357.] 



The author compares at full length the numbers of the 

 species and subspecies of American birds admitted in the first 

 edition of the A. O. U. Check-list of American Birds in 1886 

 and the corresponding numbers admitted in the new edition 

 of 1895, and shows in each case exactly how the alterations 

 came to be made. In the first edition, 738 species and 209 

 subspecies were recognized ; in the second edition, 755 species 

 and 307 subspecies are allowed — an increase of 17 species 

 and 98 subspecies. Dr. Shufeldt points out that no alteration 



