728 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



Durango. The collection contained 820 specimens, which 

 are referred to 132 species. 



Mr. Miller observes that " in the case of several species 

 the specimens from Durango are almost exactly intermediate 

 between the representative subspecies of the South-western 

 United States and those of Central Mexico, and cannot 

 properly be referred to either." Five instances are given of 

 the occurrence of this phenomenon, which is by no means 

 unknown in the Eastern Hemisphere. 



No new subspecies are described, but many useful critical 

 notes are given, and a few field-notes by the collector. 



127. North on a new Bird- of -Paradise. 



[Description of a new Bird-of-Paradise. By Alfred J. North, C.M.Z.S., 

 Ornithologist, Australian Museum, Sydney. Vict. Nat. xxii. p. 150 

 (1900).] 



Paradisea yranti, founded upon a single skin in the Aus- 

 tralian Museum, Sydney, which is believed to have come from 

 German New Guinea, is closely allied to P. intermedia De Vis 

 and P. avgusta-victorice Cab., but has the flank-plumes red- 

 dish orange and the yellow collar on the lower throat much 

 broader, as shown in an accompanying figure. 



128. Ogilvie- Grant on Malayan Birds. 



[Fasciculi Malayenses : Anthropological and Zoological Results of an 

 Expedition to Perak and the Malay States, 1901-1902, undertaken by 

 Nelson Annandale and Herbert C. Robinson under the Auspices of the 

 University of Edinburgh and the University of Liverpool. Report on 

 the Birds by W. R. Ogilvie-Grant. Zoology. Part III. July 1905. 

 4to. Pp. 65-124. Williams and Norgate.] 



On their travels through Perak and the neighbouring 

 Malayan States, Messrs. Annandale and Robinson did not 

 neglect the birds, although they had many other subjects to 

 attend to. The third Part of the ' Fasciculi Malayenses ' (a 

 publication which gives the results of the Expedition) con- 

 tains a report upon the birds of the country traversed, drawn 

 up by Mr. Ogilvie-Grant, who enumerates 225 species and 

 oives the locality of every specimen, besides remarks on 



