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25. Thcmner on tlu- Birds of Grand Canary Island. 



[Beitriige zur Ornis Gran Cacaria's. Vou Rudolf v. Tlianner. Orn. 

 Jaln-b. xxi. Heft 3 (1910).] 



A few years ago it was supposed that the Birds of the 

 Canary Islands were identical with the Birds of Europe, or 

 nearly so. Only a few well-marked species were allowed 

 to be distinct from their European representatives — 

 Frinyiila teydea, Columba laurivora, C. bullii^ &c. 



Nowadays, however, all is changed, and a large number 

 of the Canarian forms have been separated as subspecies. 

 Herr von Thanner, who, we believe, is a resident in Tenerife, 

 passed fonr montiis in 1909 in Grand Canary, collecting for 

 Dr. Koenig, and now gives us some of the results of his 

 observations, which are well worthy of stvidy, though we may 

 not accept all the subspecies which he recognises. In his 

 list of 50 species, representatives of which Herr v. Thanner 

 collected or observed, no less than 23 have a thiixl subspecific 

 name attached to them. These, however, have not, in most 

 cases, been given to them by Herr v. Thanner, but by Koenig, 

 Madariisz, Hartert, Polatzek, and other recent writers ou 

 Canarian Birds. 



26. Van Oort on new Birds from New Guinea. 



[Description of Eight new Birds collected by Mr. II. A. Lorenz in 

 South-western New Guinea. By I)r. E. D. Van Oort. Notes Leydeu 

 Mus. xxxii. p. 211.] 



]\ir. Lorenz has brought back a collection of nearly one 

 thousand bird-skins from his successful expedition to the 

 snowy mountains of New Guinea. A report on the whole 

 collection will be published in a Avork called ' Nova Guinea.' 

 IVTeanwhile, Dr. Van Oort gives us descriptions of eight new 

 species from the higher ranges. These are Anurophasis 

 monorthonyx, gen. et sp. nov. Gallinarum ; FsittaceUa lorenzi, 

 sp. nov., PiBcilodryas qiiadrimaculatHS, sp. nov. ; Pa'cilodryas 

 caniceps pecioralis, subsp. nov. ; Paramythia montium olivacea, 

 subsp. nov. ; Daphenositta miranda frontalis, subsp. nov. ; 

 Oreornis chrysoffcnys. gen. et sp. nov. ]Meliphagidarum ; and 

 MdirrlinpJtctcs lioiiknyii, sp. nov. 



