Recently published Ornithological Works. 335 



Rothschild and Hartert on JSew Guinea Birds. 



[List of the Collections of Birds made by Albert S. Meek in the lower 

 ranges of the Snow Mountains, on the Eilanden River, and on Mount 

 Goliath during the years 1910 and 1911. By the Hon. Walter Roth- 

 schild, RR.S., Ph.D., and Ernst Hartert, Ph.D. Nov. Zool. vol. xx. 1913, 

 pp. 473-527.] 



Mr. Meek^s personal adventures have been told in his 

 book ' A Naturalist in Cannibal Land/ and in this memoir 

 an account is given of the large collection of bii'ds which he 

 obtained in southern Dutch New Guinea for the Triog 

 Museum. 



The Letakwa^ where he collected in 1910, is a tributary of 

 the Oetakwa, the river by which Dr. Wollaston has recently 

 leached the snows of Mt. Carstensz^ but on this river 

 Mr. Meek did not reach a greater elevation than 3000 ft. 

 In the following year he joined a Dutch exploring party and 

 ascended the Eilanden river some miles to the east of the 

 Oetakwa, and finally made a camp at about 6500 ft., where 

 he obtained large collections of birds and insects. 



Messrs. Rothschild & Hartert have already described a 

 number of new forms in the Bulletin of the Club, and in the 

 present paper they add new species of Sericornis and Pitohui 

 and new subspecies of Astur, Poecilodryes, Machcerirhynchus, 

 Sericornis, and Philemon. 



Among the Birds of Paradise are adult males and 

 females of Astrapia splendidissima from Mt. Goliath, accord- 

 ing to Meek " the most beautiful Bird of Paradise that I 

 know/'' Falcinellus striutus atratus, also from Mt. Goliath 

 and new, the rare Pteridophora alberti with its wonderful 

 blue appendages, and females of Loboparadisea sericea 

 previously described by Rothschild, the exact locality of 

 which was previously unknown. 



Salvadori and Festa on the Birds of Rhodes. 



[Escursioni Zoologiche del Dr. Enrico Festa nell' Isola di Rodi, 

 II. Uccelli. T. Salvadori ed E. Festa. Boll. Mus. Zool. Anat. conip. 

 Torino, xxviii. 1913, no. 673, pp. 1-24.] 



Italian naturalists have lost no time in exploring their 



