126 Recently published Ornithological Works. 
“ orders ” are not very classically chosen. “ Rallae 39 should 
be “ Ralli,” and “ Pterocles 33 “ Pterocletes 33 or “ Pteroclse.” 
To reunite the Hirundinidge with the Macrochires is a fright¬ 
fully retrogade step, which we could not have believed our 
author would have been guilty of! 
11. Briiggemann 3 s c Birds of Celebes. 3 * 
[Beitrage zur Ornithologie von Celebes und Sangir von Dr. Friedrich 
Briiggemann. 8vo. Bremen: 1876.] 
It is with much pleasure that we welcome a new recruit to 
the ranks of working ornithologists. Dr. Briiggemann founds 
the present essay principally upon a collection made in 1873- 
74 by Dr. George Fischer, a medical officer of the Dutch 
Government, partly during excursions from Menado into 
Minahassa, in Celebes, and partly on Sanghir Island. The 
Darmstadt collection, however, had previously a series of 
Celebes birds, mostly presented by Hrn. v. Rosenberg and 
Riedel. Altogether the Grand-ducal museum contains more 
than 1200 Celebes and Sanghir skins, of which 1066 are due 
to Dr. Fischer’s researches. 
Dr. Briiggemann follows the arrangement of Lord Tweed- 
dale's well-known memoir on the birds of Celebes in the 
Zoological Society's c Transactions/ but adds many additional 
species. He describes as new :— Astur tenuirostris, Halcyon 
cyanocephalon , and Cuculus virescens from Celebes ; Pitta 
palliceps from Sanghir; Pitta kochi from Luzon; Monarcha 
commutata from Celebes; Artamus brevipes from the Pacific 
Islands (!); Corvus annectens from Celebes ; C. fallax and C. 
modestus, collected as C. annectens by Rosenberg, but without 
localities annexed; Ptilonopus nuchalis from Sanghir; P.fis- 
cheri and Carpophaga poecilorrhoa from Celebes; Gallinula 
lepida , ex loc. ign.; and (in an appendix) Cuculus asturinus 
from Celebes. A new genus, Schizoptila, is proposed for 
Rallina rosenbergi, Walden. Altogether fourteen additional 
species are added to the avifauna of Celebes, which now com¬ 
prises 229 species. 
* Cf. remarks by Count T. Salvadori (Ibis, 1876, p. 385). 
