86 Recent Ornithological Publications. 



alicia not rare. Grouse and Ptarmigan were also met with ; 

 and I was fortunately enabled to examine an extensive breeding 

 place of the Mormon arcticus (?)." 



" A few days were spent at Rigolet, a station of the Hudson^s 

 Bay Company, in charge of Henry Conolly, Esq., from whom 

 were received some valuable meteorological statistics. On the 

 1 5th of August the vessel left Esquimaux Bay and proceeded to 

 Henley Harbour, at the northern entrance to the Straits of Belle 

 Isle. At that date the smaller Waders generally had commenced 

 their southern migration, and during two weeks spent there, 

 which completed my stay on the coast, specimens of most of 

 them were procured." 



For further details we must refer our readers to Mr. Coues's 

 paper, which contains very interesting notes on many of the 

 species. The most important discoveries were Turdus alicia, 

 " breeding abundantly ;" Saxicola cenanthe of Europe, " one 

 example ;" and uEgiothus fuscescens, a new Red-poll, " abundant 

 along the coast of Labrador." 



The commencement of Mr. D. G. Elhot's Monograph of the 

 Fittida^ was alluded to in our last Number. We have just re- 

 ceived the second part of the work, of which, when we consider the 

 disadvantages that the author has had to contend against, we 

 cannot do otherwise than speak very favourably. The plan adopted 

 has been to give full-sized coloured figures of all the species 

 of the group, something after the fashion of Mr. Gould's Mono- 

 graphs. The figures in the first part were drawn by the late P. 

 Oudart of Paris. In the second they are the product of Mr. 

 Elliot's own pencil, and in spite of some criticisable defects, we 

 like the latter the best. In the Latin characters given to each 

 species we are also glad to notice an improvement in the second 

 number. Those in the first part are, to say the least of it, sadly 

 misprinted. We trust Mr. ElUot will prosecute this undertaking 

 and bring it to a successful conclusion. The gi*oup of birds he 

 has taken up is one of great beauty and exceeding interest. We 

 have at present nothing later than Bonaparte's diaguoses in his 



• A Monograph of the PiftideE. By Daniel Giraiul Elliot, F.Z.S , &c. 

 >rew York, 1861. Parts 1 and 2. fol. with coloured plates. 



