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Central Group of the Solomon Islands, in which no bird has 
ever been obtained before, and has furnished the Tring 
Museum with a collection from it containing examples of 
51 species. Although the majority of these are the same as 
those of the other islands of the central group, some inter¬ 
esting new forms have been discovered (see Bull. B. O. C. 
xxi. pp. 105-107). The peculiar races of Vella Lavella are 
remarkable as shewing “ a tendency towards melanistic 
coloration.” 
18. Rothschild and Hartert on Birds from San Christoval. 
[On a Collection of Birds from San Christoval, Solomon Islands. By 
the lion. Walter Rothschild, Ph.D., and Ernst Hartert, Ph.D. Nov. 
Zool. xv. p. 359.] 
Mr. Meek has also been able to pay a short visit to San 
Christoval, in the southern group of the Solomons, and to 
fill up, at all events partially, a much-lamented gap in the 
fine series of the Avifauna of this group in the Tring 
Museum. The specimens in it are referred by the authors 
to 34 species, of which Halcyon perplexa , Monarcha castanei- 
ventris megarhynchus , and Zosterops alberti are characterized 
as new. Many of the species described from San Christoval 
by Tristram and Ramsay are likewise represented in the 
collection, but, unluckily, not Ceyx gentiana ! 
19. Schaloiv on the Birds of the Tianshan. 
[Beitrage zur Vogelfauna Centralasiens von Herman Schalow.—II. 
Uebersicht der von Herrn Dr. Gottfried Merzbacher im Centralen Tien- 
schan gesammelten Vogel. Journ. f. Orn. 1908.] 
On a former occasion (see c The Ibis/ 1907, p. 511) we 
called attention to the collection of birds made by the great 
German traveller Dr. Merzbacher in Central Tianshan, and 
stated that an account of it was being prepared by Herr 
Schalow. This account has now been completed, and has 
been published in two parts in the ‘Journal fur Ormthologie > 
for 1908. Herr Schalow has favoured us with a separate 
copy of his excellent article, and we have great pleasure in 
saying a few words on it. 
