Recent Ornithological Publications. 371 



For convenience of reference I append from the 'Proceedings' 

 the description of this species'^, and avail myself of Mr. Wolf's 

 pencil to present the readers with figures of it (Plate VII.). 



XXI. — Recent Ornithuloyical Publications. 

 1. English. 

 The Eighteenth Part of Mr. Gould's ' Birds of Asia/ published 

 1st April 1866, contains figures of the following species : — 



Sypheotides auiitus. Iiidie. I Phlogsenas crinigera. Sooloo Isl. 

 Actiuodura egertoni. India. Henicurus maculatus. W . Hima- 

 nipalensis. India. j lava. 



Spizixus cauifi'ons. Sylhet (?). 



semitorques. China. 



Thaumalea picta. North China. 



guttatus (sp.n.). E. Himalaya. 

 sinensis (sp.n.). China, 

 scouleri. Iliiualaya. 



amherstise. Cochin China (?) ; Hirundo filifera. India. 



Thibet. Rhodophila melauoleuca. India. 



Phlogoenas cruenta. Philippine Isl. 1 Pratincola leucm-a. India. 



Only six specimens of the beautiful Thaumalia amherstice are, 

 according to Mr. Gould, known. Of these, two are in the British 

 Museum, two at Paris, one in the Derby Museum at Liverpool, 

 and the remaining one belongs to the family of the late Lady 

 Amherst. The female has never been recognized. Phlogoenas 

 crinige7'a is the species which was some time since described as 

 P. bartletti (P. Z. S. 1863, p. 377, and 1864, pp. 238-240). 

 Mr. Gould, we must observe, spells the name of the genus 

 Henicurus, without the aspirate, Enicvrus, following indeed the 

 example of its founder Temminck, but one that seems to us 

 " more honoured in the breach than in the observance." The 

 two species above indicated as new were first described in the 

 Zoological 'Proceedings' for 1865 (pp. 664, 665); but Mr. 

 Gould alters the specific name of the second from sinensis, under 

 * " Ex cinereo isabellinus, tectricibus alarum Isete castaneis . superciliis 

 et dorse medio cum remigum et rectricum marginibus rufescenti-isabel- 

 linis : dorso medio nigro striato : gutture medio cum cervice nigris : ma- 

 cula suboculari et guttuiis vitta utrinque laterali albis : macula cervicali 

 utrinque flava : ventre albo, crisso rufescente : rostro superiore plumbeo, 

 inferiore cum pedibus flavis. 



"Long, tota .3-8, alfc 2% cauda; 1-8 poll. Angl.'— P. Z. S. 1864, 

 pp. 169-170. 



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