Recently published Ornithological Works. 501 
77. North on a new Honey-eater. 
[Description of a new Genus and Species of Honey-eater from Rennell 
Island, Solomon Group. By Alfred J. North, C.M.Z.S., &e. Vict. Nat. 
xxiii. no. 5 (1906). } 
This new Honey-eater, which it is proposed by Mr. North 
to call Woodfordia superciliosa, is based on a spirit-specimen 
sent to the Australian Museum, Sydney, by Mr. C. M. Wood- 
ford, C.M.ZS., the British Resident in the Solomon 
Group. It is from the little-known Rennell Island, which 
Mr. Woodford has lately visited. 
Woodfordia is remarkable for its large bill, short tail, 
thick tarsi, and stout fleshy feet, and is allied to Melidectes 
and Melipotes. 
78. Proceedings of the Fourth International Ornithological 
Congress. 
[Proceedings of the Fourth International Ornithological Congress, 
London, June 1905, forming Volume XIV. of the Ornis. Edited, under the 
direction of the President, R. Bowdler Sharpe, LL.D., by the Secretaries, 
Ernst J. O. Hartert, Ph.D., and J. Lewis Bonhote, M.A. With 
Eighteen Plates. London: Dulau & Co. February, 1907. | 
In ‘The Ibis’ for 1905 (p. 622) we gave an account of 
the very successful meeting of the International Ornitho- 
logical Congress, which took place in London in June of that 
year. We have now received a copy of the official report of 
the Proceedings of the meeting, which, as will be seen by 
the title, constitutes also the fourteenth volume of ‘ Ornis,’ 
the serial publication of the International Congress. 
The volume, after a short preface signed by the President, 
begins with a formal record of the proceedings of the 
Congress during its session in London, and of its excur- 
sions to Woburn, Cambridge, and Bridlington. Then comes 
the President’s Address, which extends over fifty pages. It 
relates entirely to the history of the great collection of 
Birds in the Natural History Museum at South Kensington, 
which, we are told, now contains at least 400,000 specimens. 
Beginning with 1753, when Sir Hans Sloane’s collections 
were acquired for the nation for the sum of £20,000, 
and the purchase of Montague House in Bloomsbury for 
the purpose of storing them, Dr. Sharpe recounts the 
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