Recently published Ornithological Works. 477 
53. Salvadori on Papuan and Moluccan Nectarinians .— 
[Intorno alle specie di Nettarinie della Papuasia, delle Molucclie e del 
gruppo di Celebes. Atti d. R. Acc. d. Sc. di Torino, xii. p. 299.] 
This paper supplements the author's former memoir on 
Hermotimia (Atti R. Ac. Sc. Torino, x. p. 201), but includes 
also notices of all the other Nectarinice of Papuasia, the Mo¬ 
luccas, and Celebes. There are, according to Prof. Salva¬ 
dor^ views, 14 Hermotimia, 3 species of JEthopyga, 2 of Cyr - 
tostomus, and 1 Anthrothreptus within these limits. 
54. Salvadori on D'Albertis's Collections o/1872. 
[Catalogo della prima collezione di uccelli fatta nella Nuova Guinea 
nel 1872 dal Signor L. M. D’Albertis. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genoa, x. p. 111.] 
Of the collections made by D'Albertis in New Guinea in 
1872 only a portion, principally the novelties, have been yet 
described, by Sclater in the Zoological Society's f Proceedings,' 
and by Salvadori in the f Annali' of the Museo Civico of 
Genoa. Salvadori now gives a complete account of these 
collections, made at various points along the northern coast 
of New Guinea, and during the celebrated excursion to Mount 
Arfak, altogether embracing 499 individuals, referable to 180 
species. Of these 25 were new to science, 13 of which were 
described by Sclater, and 12 by Salvadori. 
55. Sharpe's c Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum / 
vol. iii. 
[Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum, vol. iii. Coliomorphee, 
containing the families Corvidae, Paradiseidae, Oriolidae, Dicruridae, and 
Prionopidae. By R. Bowdler Sharpe. 8vo. London: 1877.] 
Mr. Sharpe has now entered upon the most difficult portion 
of his task—the reduction into systematic order and the de¬ 
scription of the extensive group of Passeres, or Passeriformes, 
as he prefers to term it, which contains the great mass of living 
birds. Since the time of Latham's f General History' no natu¬ 
ralist has attempted such a work; and it is only one who has 
the resources of a central position and a great national col¬ 
lection at his back who could undertake it with any chance 
of success. 
