726 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



are we to understand by " a nearly equatorial dopp-height " 

 or a " moderately blank " egg-shell ? 



124. Lampe on the Birds in the Museum of Wiesbaden. 



[Katalog der Vogel-Sammlung des N aturhistoriscb.es Museum zu Wies- 

 baden. I. Teil. Picariae und Psittaci. II. Teil. Columbae und Pterocletes'. 

 Von Kustos Ed. Lampe. Jahrb. Nassau. Ver. f. Naturk 1904-5.] 



These are the first two parts of a catalogue of the speci- 

 mens of birds exhibited in the Natural History Museum of 

 Wiesbaden, prepared by Herr Lampe, the Gustos. The col- 

 lection is not large, containing examples of only 341 species 

 of Picarige, 104 of Psittaci, 85 of Columbfe, and 8 of Ptero- 

 cletes, but there are some valuable specimens in it received 

 from Bruijn, of Ternate, and a single example of the large 

 extinct Fruit-Pigeon of Norfolk Island (Hemiphaga spadicea), 

 the history of which is unfortunately unknown. 



125. Menegaux und Hellmayr on the Tracheophonce. 



[Etudes des especes critique et des types du groupe des Passereaux 

 Tracheophones de l'Amerique Tropicale appartenant aux collections du 

 Museum. Par MM. Menegaux et C. E. Hellmayr. Pt. I. Pull. d. 

 Mus. d'H. N. 1905, p. 372. Pt. II. Mem. S. d. H. N. d'Autun, xix. 

 pp. 43-126 (1900). Pt. III. Bull. Soc. Phil. 1906, pp. 24-58.] 



This is a useful piece of work, and we ought to be thankful to 

 the authors for having undertaken it. The Tracheophonine 

 Passeres of the Neotropical Ornis contain some of the most 

 difficult groups in the whole Class of Birds to treat satis- 

 factorily. The famous Museum of Paris is the fortunate 

 possessor of a large series of specimens of these forms, among 

 which are many types of species described by d'Orbigny, 

 Lafresnaye, Castelnau, Deville, Saint-Hilaire, and other well- 

 known authorities. The authors of these three memoirs 

 have undertaken the hard task of searching for these types 

 (which were not in all cases properly labelled) and other 

 critical specimens, and of giving us all the information they 

 can upon them. Why they should have published the results 

 of their studies in three different journals it is difficult to 

 understand. We should have thought that the ' Bulletin ' 



