Recently published Ornithological Works. 
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E. Weiske in Papua (British New Guinea) and Northern 
Queensland from 1895 to 1900 has been purchased by 
Dr. Steindachner and presented to the Vienna Museum. 
But we believe that specimens from the same collector had 
previously gone elsewhere. Dr. Sassi now gives us a list of 
Weiske’s birds and refers them to 45 species. None are 
described as new, but we see the names of such rare species 
as Oreocharis arfaki and Paramythia montium in the list. 
It would have been better to have kept the Australian birds 
separate from those of New Guinea. 
25. Shvfeldt on the Osteology of Birds. 
[Osteology of Birds. By R. W. Shufeldt, New York State Education. 
Department, Bull. 130. Albany, 1909.] 
This f Bulletin ’ contains a series of articles by Dr. Shufeldt 
on Accipitres, Gallinse, Anseres, and Coccystes glaudarius , 
with a bibliography of papers referring to the subject. 
These have for the most part been separately published in 
former years, but the illustrations are chiefly new and the 
subject-matter is worked up afresh. The species treated 
are chiefly North American, as might be expected; but the 
volume will he none the less useful on that account to our 
readers, and evidently forms a fairly complete manual of the 
Doctor’s writings. 
26. f The South African Journal .’ 
[The Journal of the South xAfrican Ornithologists’ Union. Vol. v. No. 2 
(Oct. 1909).] 
The first paper in this number is by Mr. E. C. Chubb, on 
birds collected between Bulawayo and the Tegwani River by 
Mr. R. Douglas. He records Buteo desertorurn from South 
Rhodesia for the first time, and gives notes on immature 
examples of Numida coronata. The second paper, which 
should be studied by those interested in the distribution of 
South African species, is on birds observed during a journey 
through Portuguese Nyassa-land in July and August, at an 
average elevation of some 1500 feet. The writer, Major 
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