588 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



International Council have agreed that the two Records shall, 

 at any rate provisionally, be amalgamated, as described in the 

 following paragraph of the Zoological Society's Report: — 



" The annual issues of the ' Zoological Record ' have long 

 been regarded as amongst the most important services to 

 Zoological Science rendered by the Society. The magnitude 

 of the task has been increasing annually, and in recent years 

 the Zoology Volumes of the International Catalogue of 

 Scientific Literature, issued by an International Bureau 

 under the auspices of the Royal Society, have to a certain 

 extent covered the same ground. The Council have arranged 

 for a provisional amalgamation of the two undertakings for 

 a period of five years, beginning with the literature for the 

 year 1906, to be published in 1907, and hope that the union 

 will lead to increased efficiency and economy. The ' Zoolo- 

 gical Record ' Committee will remain responsible for the 

 scientific side of the work, and the conjoint volumes will be 

 issued with numbers and title pages in series with the 

 existing ' Zoological Record/ so that, at the end of the 

 period of five years, the Zoological Society may resume its 

 independent control, if the amalgamation be not successful/' 



79. Journal of the Federated Malay States Museums. 



[Journal of the Federated Malay States Museums. Taiping- and Kuala 

 Lumpur. Vol. i. nos. 1, 2, 3. Jan.-July 1905.] 



This newly-established Journal of the Federated S rates in 

 the Malay Peninsula contains several articles on birds by 

 Mr. Herbert C. Robinson, the lately appointed Curator of 

 the Selaugor State Museum, which merit our attention. 



In the first number Mr. Robinson gives a List of a col- 

 lection of Birds from Negri Sembilan, which has been 

 already noticed ('Ibis/ 1905, p. 281). In the second 

 number he commences a useful List of the Birds at present 

 known to inhabit the Malay Peninsula south of the Isthmus 

 of Kra. He begins with the Pigeons, of which he enumerates 

 21 species as occurring in the district, and adds various 

 remarks about exact localities and other particulars. 



In the third number the descriptions of Myiojihoneiis 



