186 Recent Ornithological Publications. 



Bryant in endeavouring to resuscitate Moerhing's long-forgotten 

 term Catarractes, and shall continue to use Uria for this well- 

 known group of AlcidcB, of which Dr. Bryant recognizes four 

 species, namely — 1. troille (Linn.); 2. ringvia (Briinnich) ; 3. 

 lomvia [brunnichii, Sabine) ; 4. californica, Bryant. 



The first three occur on the Atlantic coasts of Europe and 

 North America; the last is the representative of U. troille on 

 the Pacific, and may be considered as a climatal variety of that 

 species. 



A part of the ' Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of 

 New York ' (vol. vii., Nos. 10-12), lately issued, contains three 

 articles by Mr. George N. Lawrence relating to ornithology. 

 Of two of these we have already said a few words *. The third 

 is a second list of birds collected by Mr. McLeannan on the 

 Panama Railway route during the winter of 1860-61, "with the 

 assistance of Mr. John R. Galbraith, an intelligent and skilful 

 young taxidermist," of New York. Nearly 300 specimens were 

 obtained by these active collectors, comprising additional exam- 

 ples of nearly all the 142 species enumerated in the former 

 ' catalogue, and of about 150 additional species. Several of the 

 latter are described as new. Mr. Lawrence has materials accu- 

 mulating for a third list of birds from this interesting locality, 

 among which are the new species described in our last Number, 

 and other rarities. "We cordially wish Mr. Lawrence success in 

 working out the ornithology of this interesting region. The forms 

 require accurate comparison with those of Guatemala and New 

 Granada, and will prove in many cases, as we can testify from 

 inspection of those of them submitted to us by Mr. Lawrence, 

 to be intermediate in characters as in locality. 



In the recently published * Proceedings of the Academy of 

 Natural Sciences of Philadelphia,' pp. 145-384, for 1861, we 

 notice, besides the two papers of Mr. Coues spoken of in our 

 last Number, the following articles relating to birds : — 



(1.) Description of a new Pitta, by Mr. Elliot [Pitta leu- 

 coptera), from Ceylon (?). We doubt Ceylon being the true 



* See ' Ibis,' 1861, p. 406. 



