Recently published Ornithological Works . 561 
Catalogue of Birds in 1891, the distinctive characters of 
which are not so strongly marked. 
The Lories, as will be at once evident on inspection of the 
six coloured plates that illustrate Count Salvadorks memoir, 
are one of the most brilliant groups of birds, and clad in 
scarlet and blue of various shades. As in the ‘ Catalogue/ 
the author divides them into 14 genera, and gives “ keys ”■ 
to the species of every genus, so that they can, in most 
cases, be easily determined by their most salient characters. 
About 90 species are recognised, spread over the whole 
Australian Region except New Zealand, but most abundant 
in New Guinea and Australia. One species ( Psitteuteles 
johnstonice) , strangely enough, has passed out of Australian 
limits and taken up its abode in the mountains of the 
Philippine Islands *. 
The Cyclopsittacidse, which form the subject of the 
twelfth part of the f Genera Avium/ are characterised by 
the absence of the transverse ridges on the under surface of 
the upper mandible. They contain two genera only— 
Neopsittacus and Cyclopsittacus , both confined to the Austro- 
Malayan Subregion. The former genus contains 4 species 
and the latter 19. Some of them are well figured in the 
two accompanying plates. 
We think that Mr. Wytsman would do well to “ hurry 
up ,? his assistant ornithologists, who have only supplied 
him with twelve parts in five years ! 
67. Sclater on the Jacamars. 
[Genera Avium, conducted by P. Wytsman. Part X. Picariae, 
Fam. Galbulidae, by F. L. Sclater. 7 pp., 1 col. plate. Price 3,s. 8 d. 
Brussels, 1909.] 
The Neotropical Family >f Jacamars, as explained in the 
introductory remarks to this memoir, has occupied Sclater’s 
attention for many years. In 1882 he published a 
monograph of them and of the allied family of Puff- 
* Cf. Goodfellow, Avicult. Mag. iv. p. 83, pi. 
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