482 Recently published Ornithological Works. 
protuberances of the skull of certain birds. GE. insolitus was 
figured in part viii. Ptilopus jobiensis is now depicted as the 
nearest ally of the former species. 
The second article is on “ Bird-nets/' in treating of which 
Mr. Bowley reproduces some of the engravings in Wil- 
lughby^s f Ornithology/ Interesting sketches represent bird¬ 
netting as practised at the present time on the shores of the 
Wash. Mr. Bowley gives many details on this subject. 
Next we have an article on a recent addition to the genus 
Loriculus, by Mr. Sclater, accompanied by a plate, whereon 
L. aurantiifrons and L. tener are represented—the latter being 
a new species lately described in the ( Proceedings/ from 
Duke-of-York Island. Finally, we have a further instal¬ 
ment of the translation of Col. Prejevalsky’s work on the birds 
of Mongolia, to which we have before alluded ( antea , p. 378). 
A plate of Grus nigricollis is now given, copied from the 
original work. 
59. E. P. Ramsay’s Papers in the ‘ Proceedings of the 
Linnean Society of New South Wales.’ 
We have just received from Mr. Bamsay some papers ex¬ 
tracted from the f Proceedings 3 of the above Society for the 
current year. Those relating to birds are as follows:— 
(1) “ On a new Species of Platycercus from the interior of 
New South Wales.” This species is described as P. mas - 
ter si anus. 
(2) “ Description of a new Species of Gerygone 33 called 
G. flavida. Specimens were obtained by Mr. Bamsay him¬ 
self in the dense scrub of Herbert river in 1874. Its nearest 
ally is G. albogularis. 
(3) “ Some further remarks on Poephila gouldee and P. mi- 
rabilis. The question of the distinctness or identity of these 
two supposed species is here further discussed; but Mr. Bamsay 
hesitates which view 7 to adopt. 
(4) “ Description of some new Species of Birds from New 
Britain, New Ireland, Duke-of-York Island, and the South¬ 
east coast of New Guinea.” Here Nasiterna pusilla is de¬ 
scribed as a new species from (C the dense forests in the neigh- 
