410 Recent Ornithological Publications. 



Mr. Gould has not referred to the notice, that some years since 

 Mr. J. H. Gurney recorded (Zoologist, p. 4096) the capture of 

 this bird in Sweden. Budytes citreoloides is B. citreola of Gould 

 {olim) and Jerdon, but not of Pallas. Phyllopneuste tristis is 

 distinct from P. brevb'ostris, Strickland. 



A reprint of the celebrated Treaty of Vienna concluded in 

 1815, however carefully annotated, would scarcely be of any as- 

 sistance to a student of the existing political state of Europe, 

 and those who consult Mr. Newman^s reprint of Montagu's 

 ' Ornithological Dictionary'* will, we fear, find it but a blind 

 guide to the present state of the science to which it refers. Mon- 

 tagu's 'Dictionary' appeared in 1803; the ' Supplement' to it in 

 1813. The exact date of publication of the ' Appendix' we do not 

 know; but, as its author died June 20th, 1815, it does not much 

 matter for our purpose. Setting aside the consideration whether 

 the whole work as an ornithological classic deserved reprinting 

 again (a new edition of it having been published by Renuie in 

 1833), what we have to do with is the question whether the 

 additions made to it by Mr. Newman give an adequate summary 

 of the progress in this particular branch of knowledge during 

 the last half century. We regret that our answer must be a very 

 decided negative. Perhaps, however, this may not have been 

 the editor's scope. To judge by his preface, his chief object 

 has been to add notices of the diflferent species which have been 

 recorded in certain channels of information as having occurred 

 in the British Islands since Montagu's time. Now this would 

 not seem a very hard task ; but we can assure our readers that it 

 is very imperfectly performed. For nearly twenty- four years 

 Mr. Newman has been editor of a magazine which is crowded 

 with records respecting British Birds, in great part of very high 

 value. Surely, when he set himself about his self-imposed labour, 

 he might have been expected to exhaust what information he 



* A Dictionary of British Birds. Reprinted from Montagu's Ornitho- 

 logical Dictionary, and incorporating the additional species described by 

 Selby ; Yai-rell, in all three editions ; and in Natural-History Jovu-nals. 

 Compiled and edited by Edward Newman, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. London ; 

 18G6. 8vo, pp. 400. 



