] 9 1 Recently published Ornithological J I orks. 



collections of birds made in the Dutch portion of that great 

 island by Dr. A. W. Nieuwenhuis from 1896 to 1900, and 

 sent to the Leyden Museum. They are referred to 209 

 species, on each of which short notes are given. The only 

 actually new species in the series obtained by Dr. Nieu- 

 wenhuis was a Short-legged Ant-Thrush, Poliolophus nieu- 

 venhuisi, which has been previously described, and is now 

 figured, but there are other rarities in the list. We observe 

 that 12 examples of Phylloscopus boreahs were obtained on 

 the Upper Mahakam River during the winter months, shewing 

 one of the localities where this little bird, which breeds in 

 the far north, passes its winter. A fine series ot the splendid 

 Pheasant Lobiophasis bulweri w r as also procured on the 

 Upper Mahakam River, and an adult male of Dissura sturmi 

 (see ' Ibis/ 1904, p. G74) on the Upper Kapuas. 



9. Harteri's ' Miscellanea Ornithological 



[Miscellanea Ornithologica. Critical, Nomenclatorial, and other Notes 

 mostly on Paljearctic Birds and their Allies. By Ernst Hartert. Ph.D. 

 Part II. Nov. Zool. xii. pp. 497-503.] 



We have already noticed the first part of Dr. Hartert's 

 ' Miscellanea Ornithologica' (see 'Ibis/ 1905, p. 123). The 

 author begins the second part by a discussion of the various 

 races of Varus major, of which 18 are enumerated. Of these 

 P. m. mahrattarum (from the Indian peninsula and Ceylon) 

 and P. m. hahianus (from Hainan) are described as new 

 subspecies. Our English bird is called " Parus major 

 neivtoni,'" but we fear that the ornithologist after whom it 

 is named will hardly appreciate the compliment. Remarks 

 on some of the Larks (Lullula, Alauda, Eremophila, Ammo- 

 manes, and Galerida) follow. These are mainly supple- 

 mentary to the accounts of these genera given in the third 

 part of the ' Birds of the Palsearctic Fauna/ 



10. Harteri's 'Birds of the Palcearctic Fauna.' 

 [Die Vbgel der palaarktischen Fauna. Von Dr. E. Hartert. Heft iii.* 

 Berlin : Friedlander, 1905.] 



Continuing the same plan as in the previous parts, 



* For notice of Heft ii., see ' Ibis,' 1904, p. 644. 



