Recently published Ornithological Works. 213 
atrata. A second specimen, lately received from British 
New Guinea, is supposed to be a female of the same species. 
On the same plate is figured the singular Finch Oreostruthus 
fuliginosus of De Vis, of which the Tring Museum has lately 
received a good series from Mount Knutsford, British New 
Guinea. From the same locality have been received five 
additional specimens of the remarkable Passerine bird 
Ifrita coronata Bothsch., now figured on plate iii., which 
also contains an illustration of the new Pitta dohertyi, dis¬ 
covered by Doherty on Sula Mangoli. 
29. Schalow on Birds from Spitsbergen. 
[Einige Bemerkungen zur Yogelfauna von Spitzbergen. Von Herman 
Schalow. J. f. 0. 1899, p. 375.J 
After some preliminary remarks on recent accretions to 
our knowledge of the North-Polar Avifauna, Herr Schalow 
gives an account of the birds collected by Dr. Homer and 
Dr. Schaudinn in the course of the voyage of the ss. ‘Helgo¬ 
land * in the Spitsbergen seas in 1898, on which a report has 
been lately published by Capt. Biidiger in the ‘Verhande- 
lungen ’ of the ‘ Gesellschaft fiir Erdkunde ' of Berlin (xxv. 
p. 430, 1898). Examples of 12 species were obtained, upon 
which various notes are given. Among these were three 
adult specimens in breeding-dress of Xema sabinii , being the 
first recorded as obtained on the Nordostland of Spitsbergen. 
Gavia alba (i. e. Pagophila eburnea) was found breeding in 
hundreds on Abel Island, King-Karl's Land. Examples of 
a breeding Bernicle Goose, with four young in down, were 
procured in Wide Bay, North-west Spitsbergen, and a 
Whimbrel was shot on Bear Island on June 4th. 
30. Sharpe’s Hand-list of the Genera and Species of 
Birds. 
[A Hand-list of the Genera and Species of Birds. [Nomenclator Avium 
turn Fossilium turn Viventium.] By R. Bowdler Sharpe, LL.D. Vol. I. 
8vo. London, Printed by order of the Trustees of the British Museum, 1899.] 
The first volume of Dr. Sharpe's new ‘ Hand-list of 
Birds 9 (see Bull. B. O. C. viii. p. xxiv) was issued in 
