Recently published Ornithological Works. 127 



Vogel uud einei' Ijiste aller bislier vou Kaiser Willielmsland Registrirten. 

 Von A. B. Mpyer. Abb. u. Ber. k. zool. u. aiithro. Miis. DresdeD, 

 1892-93, no. 3.] 



This is Dr. Meyer's fifth article on the birds of Kaiser- 

 Wilhelm^s Land^ as the German section of New Guinea is 

 called. The third was noticed by us in 1892 (^bis/ 1892, 

 p. 337) ; the fourth was published in the Journal f. Orn. for 

 the same year. 



The present memoir is based on the last collection of Herr 

 Bruno Geisler, uho has now left New Guinea, and treats of 

 78 species and subspecies, of which the following 8 are 

 characterized as new : — Baza timorlaensis, from Timor Laut ; 

 Falco severus papuanus, from S.E. New Guinea; Urospizias 

 sumbaensis, irom Suraba; Lorius erytlirothorax rubiensis, from 

 Rubi, N. G. ; Poecilodryas melanoyenys and Drepanornis 

 geisleri, from Huon Gulf, N. G. ; Megaloprepia poliura sep- 

 tentrionalis, from N. and E. New Guinea and Jobi ; and 

 Carpophaga muelleri aurantia, from Northern New Guinea. 



Parad'isea gulielmi of Cabanis (J. f. O. xxxvi. p. 119) is 

 made the type of a new genus, Trichoparadisea. Examples 

 of this Paradise-bird were obtained by Herr Geisler on the 

 " Sattelberg,^^ north of Huon Gulf, at an elevation of 800 

 metres, and on Mt. Nanson, N.W. of Huon Gulf, at an 

 elevation of 1600 metres. Both sexes are now fully described. 

 Full notes are given on all the species. 



At the end of the paper a complete list of the species 

 known from Kaiser- Wilhelm's Land (128 in all) is given. 

 Two plates contain a chart of the northern coast of Huon 

 Gulf, and figures of the eggs of three species of Cassowary. 



9. Nehrling's North- American Birds. 



[Nortb American Birds. By H. Nebrling. Witb 36 Coloured Plates 

 after Water-colour Paintings by Prof. Robert Ridgway, Smithsonian 

 Institution, Washington, D.C, Prof. A. Goering, Leipzig, and Gustav 

 Muetzel, Berlin. Parts III.-VIII. 4to. Milwaukee, Wis., 1891-93.] 



Mr. Nehrling's work, which we last noticed in 1890 (see 

 Ibis, 1890, p. 377), has now reached its seventh and eighth 

 parts, which are issued as a double number, and conclude the 

 first volume. The figures, reduced to a small size, are nicely 



