116 Recent Ornithological Publications. 
landica from New Zealand, Mecistura swinhoii from Shanghai, 
Volvocivora schierbrandi from Borneo, Carpophaga frauenfeldi 
from Stewart Island, and Aramides zelebori from Brazil. An 
interesting fact ascertained by the Novara Expedition is the true 
locality of the beautiful Chalcopsitta rubiginosa, which turns out 
to be the island of Puynipet, one of the Caroline group, a little 
to the north of New Guinea. We hardly know whether this 
bird is to be accounted one of the “ Crimson ” Lories; but if so, 
Mr. Wallace will have to enlarge the borders of the area he 
assigned to them. 
‘ The Birds of Cilli ’ are treated of in a paper contributed by 
Herr Eduard Seidensacher to the Natural-Science Union of 
Steiermark (Styria) in 1864*. Two hundred and four species 
(to which two others are added in manuscript, in the separately 
printed copy with which the author has favoured us) are enume¬ 
rated as occurring in the district. None of them are of any 
remarkable rarity; but the notes appended seem to be carefully 
drawn up, and the whole article contains much useful informa¬ 
tion respecting this (ornithologically speaking) little-known 
region. Stria? uralensis is supposed by Herr Seidensacher to 
breed in Styria, though he has not hitherto been able to ascertain 
the fact positively. 
3. Dutch. 
A treatise on the Episternal Apparatus of Birds has been 
contributed by Heer P. Harting to the publications of the 
Utrecht Society of Arts and Sciences f. We are aware that the 
word episternum has been used by writers in several senses; that 
attached to it by our author seems to show, if we understand 
him rightly, that he means to comprehend under the designation 
of “ episternal apparatus ” all the membranous appendages which 
connect the coracoids and furcula with the sternum, and which are 
* Die Vogel von Cilli. Separat-Abdruck aus den Mittheilungen des 
naturwissenschaftlichen Verein fur Steiermark. Heft ii. 186*4. 
t a L’appareil episternal des Oiseaux. Natuurkundige Verhandelingen 
uitgegeven door het provincial Utrechtsch Genootschap van Kunsten en 
Wetenschappen. Nieuwe Reeks. Eerste Deel, derde stuk. Utrecht: 1864. 
(London, Williams and Norgate.) 
