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the Ornithological Congress at Buda-Pesth, to be the most 
trustworthy on the Hungarian Ornis. The object of the 
present paper is to enumerate some species omitted in that 
list and to give notes on them. These species—or forms— 
are 29 in number; among them are Lycus (scr. Corvus) 
collaris Drummond, Galerita senegalensis, Mgithalus castaneus 
Sev., and Chen hyperboreus (Pall.). 
25. Nelson on new Birds from North-western Mexico. 
[Descriptions of new Birds from North-western Mexico. By E. W. 
Nelson. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, xiii. p. 25 (1899.) 
The collection from which the specimens here described 
were obtained was formed by Mr. E. A. Goldman in Western 
Mexico for the Biological Survey of the U.S. Department of 
Agriculture. The species and subspecies now characterized 
as new are named Amazona albifrons saltuensis, Antrostomus 
goldmani } Aphelocoma grisea, Pipilo fuscus intermedins , 
Cardinalis cardinalis affinis, C. c. sinaloensis, Arremonops 
superciliosa smalow, Basileuterus rufifrons caudatus, Thryo- 
thorus felix pallidus, Heleodytes stridulus , Myiadestes obscurus 
cinereus 3 and Catharus olivascens. 
26. Reichenow on the Birds of the Bismarck Islands. 
[Die Vogel der Bismarckinselri. Von Ant. Beichenow. Mitteil. Mas. 
f. Nat. Berlin. Band I. Heft 3, 1899.] 
The “ Bismarck Islands/' it may be necessary to explain to 
some of our readers, is the name assigned by their present 
possessors to the group of islands east of New Guiuea, 
formerly called New Britain, New Ireland, and Duke of 
York Island, but of which the names have been very 
unnecessarily, in our opinion, changed to Neu-Pommern/' 
“ Neu-Mecklenburg,” and “Neu-Lauenburg," together with 
the adjacent groups of New Hanover and the Admiralty 
Islands. 
After an historical account of our knowledge of the bird- 
life of these islands (which commenced with the visit of 
the French naturalists Lesson and Garnot, in the corvette 
