204 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



21. Reiser on the Ornithological Results of the Austrian 

 Expedition to Northern Brazil. 



[Ueber die ornithologische Ausbeute wahrend der von der kais. 

 Akademie der Wissenschaften im Jahre 1903 nach Brasilien entsendeten 



Expedition. Anz. Ak. Wien, no. viii. (July, 1905).] 



The objects and the route of the Austrian Expedition to 

 N.E. Brazil in 1903 were described in Herr Reiser's letter 

 of March 1904 (see < Ibis/ 1904, p. 471). Dr. Steindachner 

 read a short report on the birds collected during the expedi- 

 tion, drawn up by Herr Custos Reiser, before the Academy 

 of Sciences of Vienna on the 13th of July last. The 

 specimens were stated to be 1317 in number, representing 

 354 species, amongst which were examples of five new to 

 science. These were named Rhamphastos thereste, Megaxenops 

 (gen. nov.) parnagiue, Synallaxis griseiventris, Bubo magel- 

 lanicus deserti, and Rhynchocyclus rufescens catingcp. The 

 complete account of the Collection is promised in 1906. 



22. Rothschild and Hartert on the Birds of the Solomon, 

 Islands. 



[Further Contributions to our Knowledge of the Ornis of the Solomon 

 Islands. By the Hon. Walter Rothschild, Ph.D., and Dr. Ernst Hartert. 

 Nov. Zool. xii. pp. 243-208 (1905).] 



Messrs. Rothschild and Hartert continue their account of 

 the splendid collections made by the indefatigable naturalist 

 Albert S. Meek in the Solomon Islands. Meek has now 

 visited Rendova, Gizo, New Georgia, Choiseul, and Bougain- 

 ville, and, notwithstanding the ferocity of the natives and 

 the bad climate, has succeeded in attaining most valuable 

 results. The number of actual novelties in these last 

 collections is small, but a few wonderful discoveries have 

 been made, such as Microgoura meeki, Halcyon bougainvillei, 

 and Corvus meeki. These have been already characterise d 

 in the ' Bulletin ' of the B. O. C, but both sexes of the 

 conspicuous Kingfisher Halcyon bougainvillei are now figured, 

 and the following new subspecies are described: — Phlegoenas 

 beccarii intermedia, Astur etorques rubianee, A. e. bougainvillei, 

 Charmosynopsis placentis pallidior, Alcedo ispida salomonensis, 

 Ceyx tepid a nigro-maxilla, Halcyon tfistrami alberti, Mon- 

 archa kulambangrce meeki, and Graucalus pusillus ombriosus. 



