150 Recently published Oriiitholugical Works. 



Oliver on the Birds of Lord Hoive, Norfolk, and the 

 Kermadec Islands. 



[Geographic Relationships of the Biids of Lord Howe, Norfolk, and the 

 Keraiadec Islands. By W. R. B. Oliver. Trans. New Zealand Inst. 

 vol. .xliv. 1911', pp. 2U-221.] 



All Oceanic Islands are of great importance as regards 

 their birds^ particularly as to those birds that are resident 

 and -nesting in tlieiHj and the three island-groups studied in 

 the present paper are of much interest. But the results 

 arrived at are somewhat meagre, and there is little information 

 given as to the evidence npon odiich they are based. The 

 tables supplied consist of merely the names of the species. 



Van Oort on Birds from the Dutch Indies. 



[List of a Collection of Birds from "Western Java and Krakatau. By 

 Dr. E. I), van Oort. Notes Leydeu Museum, xxvii. 1910, pp. 106-166, 



An undoscribed form of MicrocjJossiis aterrimus. Ibid, xxxiii. 1911, 

 pp. 239-240. 



One small Collection of Birds from Mount Tengger, East Java. Ibid, 

 xxxiv. 1912, pp. 44-50. 



Endynamis inininia, an apparently new Cuckoo from South-western 

 New Guinea. Ibid, xxxiv. 1912, p. -54. 



On some new or rare Birds from Sumatra, Java, Cerani, and the 

 Poeloe Toedjoe group north of Ceram, Ibid, xxxiv. 1912, pp. 59-05.] 



The first of these papers contains an account of about 

 800 specimens obtained by Mr. Edward Jacobson in various 

 localities in Java, as well as in the island of Krakatau. 

 Mr, Jacobson made some interesting observations on the 

 re-stocking of that island after the great irruption, when the 

 whole of the fauna and flora were practically wiped out. No 

 new species are described in the paper. 



In the second paper a new black Cockatoo is described 

 from Humboldt Bay, on the north-west coast of New Guinea, 

 under the name of Microglossus aterrimus stenolophus. 



The third paper contains a list of a further collection 

 of birds from eastern Ja^sa, in which is described a new 

 subspecies, Crocopsis bimaculatus tenggerensis. 



The last paper on the list deals with some rare and some 

 new species collected by Baron van Dedem, who, with his 



