202 Recently published Ornithological I forks. 



18. North on some Australian Honey-eaters. 



[(1) On an Insular Form of Melithreptus brevirostris. By A. J. North. 

 Rec. Austral. Mus. vol. vi. pt. 1. 



(2) Notes on the Varied Honey-eater. By A. J. North. Ibid.'] 



Mr. North's recent studies of the Australian Meliphagidae 

 have led him to separate the form of Melithreptus brevirostris 

 from Kangaroo Islands, South Australia, as M. magnirostris. 

 In the second paper the nest and eggs of Ptilotis versicolor 

 from one of the Frankland Islands, off the coast of N.E. 

 Queensland, are described and figured. 



19. Oberholser on Birds from Kilimanjaro. 



[Birds collected by Dr. W. L. Abbott in the Kilimanjaro Region, East 

 Africa. By Harry C. Oberholser. Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxviii. pp. 823- 

 930.] 



The excellent series of birds sent to the U.S. National 

 Museum by the energetic traveller and collector Dr. Abbott 

 from the district round Kilimanjaro, in 1888 and 1889, has, 

 for reasons which are not very clearly explained, remained 

 undescribed (with the exception of a few novelties) up to 

 the present time. Mr. Oberholser now gives us a complete 

 account of it. It consists of 684 specimens, which "represent 

 256 species and subspecies belonging to 59 families/" It 

 will be, of course, understood that there is much difficulty 

 in the determination of African birds in America, where 

 there is no such large series of named specimens for com- 

 parison as are to be found at London and Berlin. A good 

 idea of the richness of Dr. Abbott's collection is furnished by 

 the list of 62 species and subspecies that were unnamed when 

 his specimens were first received, but have since been described 

 from other collections made in British East Africa. Never- 

 theless there remain in Dr. Abbott's series examples of a 

 certain number of supposed new forms which are characterised 

 in the present memoir under the following names: — Astur 

 sparsim-fasciatus aceletus, Lissotis notophila, (En a capensis 

 anonyma, Chalcopelia chalcospila acanthina, Asio maculosus 

 amerimnus, Melignothes exilis meliphilus, Pycnonotus layardi 

 intents, Apalis thcsrcla, and Platysteira crypt o/cuca. Besides 



