190 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



Societe Zoologique de France for last year. As the latest 

 resume oi the birds of this interesting part of Southern Europe, 

 and as being drawn up by an authority on the subjects© well 

 known for his labours on the avifauna of Spain as the author, 

 this memoir will, we are sure, be much appreciated. The 

 total number of species included by Mr. Howard Saunders in 

 his list is 339. Of these, three only, we believe, are peculiar 

 to the Spanish peninsula — namely, Gecinus sharpii, Calen- 

 drella batica, and Cyanopica cooki^. As special reference is 

 made by the author to nomenclature, we may remind him 

 that he will find on referring to his dictionary that the correct 

 name of the Robin is Erithacus (not Erythacus) and that 

 the Greek word Aedon cannot be properly abbreviated into 

 jEdon. 



18. Brandt on Russian Zoological Works. 



[Brevis Enumeratio operum ad faunam mammalium et avium Imperii 

 Rossici pertinentiimi ; auctore Alexandro Brandtio.] 



A very useful catalogue of works relating to the mammals 

 and birds of Russia, which, as the author observes, were im- 

 perfectly stated in Sclater^s address on zoological literature 

 given before the British Association at Bristol f. 



19. Colletfs Contributions to Norwegian Ornithology. 



[Mindre Meddelelser vedrorende Norges Fuglefauna i Aarene 1873-76. 

 Af Robert CoUett. Nyt Mag. Naturv. Kristiania, 1877, pp. 85-225.] 



A series of notes on the birds of Norway, from the pen of 

 a well-known and excellent observer accustomed to field- 

 work. 



* In the Bew vohime of his (Jatalogue (iii. p. 67) Mr. Sharpe uses Cyano- 

 poluis as the name for this genus, giving the date 1849. But if a reference 

 is made to the Brit. Assoc. Report for that year (p. 75), as quoted, no such 

 title will be found, the present species being there called simply Pica 

 cooki. Mr. Sharpe has been misled by Bonaparte's quotation, P. Z. S. 

 1860, p. 86 ; but he should have recollected that Napoleonic assertions 

 required to be veiified ! 



t See Rep. Brit. Assoc. 1875, pt. ii. p. 85. 



