468 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



rection by the Rev. Churchill Babington has been accepted 

 by the employment of the properly formed generic term 

 Podicipes for the Grebes, instead of Podiceps. Lastly, the 

 Order Tubinares is taken away from proximity to the Gavise. 



1 10. Shufeldfs ' Contributions to Science.' 



[Contributions to Science and Bibliographical Resum(5 of the Writings 

 of R. W. Shufeldt. By their Author. New York : 1887.] 



Dr. Shufeldt sends us a copy of a printed list of his various 

 papers and writings since 1881, over a hundred in number, 

 besides others in the press and in preparation, showing a 

 large amount of work accomplished under not very advan- 

 tageous circumstances. 



111. Sousa on the Birds of Dahomey, 



[Aves de Dahomey par Jose Augusto de Sousa. Jorn. Acad. Sci. 

 Lisboa, No. xliv. pp. 217-219.] 



A first remittance from Mr. Francis Newton to the Lisbon 

 Museum contains sixteen species, none of them new to science, 

 from Sao de Ajuda and other places in the kingdom of Da- 

 homey ; ten of these are included in Dr. Barboza du Bocage's 

 ' Ornithologie d^Angola.' 



112. Stejneger on Brachyrhamphus perdix. 



[On Brachyramphus [sie] perdix (Pall.) and its nearest Allies. By 

 Leonhard Stejneger. Zeitschr. f. d. gesammte Ornithol. 1886, p. 210.] 



A specimen of ''Murrelet'^ received from Kamtschatka 

 has convinced Dr. Stejneger that Pallas's Cephus perdix is a 

 perfectly valid species, nearest to Brachyrhamphus marmo- 

 ratus (Gmel.), but resembhng B. brevirostris (Vig.), usually 

 known as B. kittlitzii, in the coloration of its upper parts in 

 summer. A coloured plate of the resuscitated species and 

 full descriptions of it and of the other members of the 

 group are given. 



