208 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



DuCane Godman and Osbert Salvin. (Zoology.) Parts xxvi. and xxvii. 

 4to. London: 1883. Published for the Editors by K. H. Porter, 

 10 Chandos Street, Cavendish Square, W.] 



The 26th part of this important work continues the Birds, 

 and contains the Coerebidae and the commencement of the 

 Tanagridse. Of the former family 11 species are included in 

 the Central- American avifauna — one, Dacnis viyuieri, being 

 now described and figured for the first time from Oustalet's 

 MS. The type of this well-marked species in the Paris 

 Museum was obtained on the Gulf of Darien in 1877 by 

 Dr. Viguier. Of the Tanagridse the genera Chlurophonia 

 and Euphonia and the first seven species of Calliste are 

 treated of. Chlorophonia cyanodorsalis of Dubois we look 

 upon as a very questionable species : the type, after which 

 Sclater has made special inquiries, is no longer in the Brussels 

 Museum, if it ever was there ; and no one knows what has 

 become of it. Besides Dacnis viguieri already mentioned, 

 the present number of the 'Biologia' contains excellent figures 

 of both sexes of Diglossa plmnhea, also of Certhiola caboti, 

 Euphonia luteicapilla,fulvicrissa, and gracilis, Calliste florida, 

 and Pyranga erythrocephala. 



The 27th part continues the account of the Central- 

 American Tanagridse into the genus Tachyphonus. Pyranga 

 figlina is described as a new species of the " hepatica " group. 

 The type is from British Honduras. Phoenicothraupis rhodi- 

 nolcsma, a new form of the '^ rubica " group from Ecuador, is 

 described in a footnote. We are not sure that it is laudable 

 to give descriptions of new birds of one country in a work 

 relating to another, although there are precedents for this 

 practice. Lanio leucothorax melanopygius of Ridgway is 

 elevated to specific rank as L. melanopygius ; it is a southern 

 representative of L. leucothorax. Figures are given of 

 Rhamphocoelus passerinii, R. uropygialis, Pyranga testacea 

 <J et $ , Chlorothraupis carmioli, Eucometis spodocephala , 

 Tachyphonus chrysomelas and T. nitidissimus (both sexes) . 



33. Gould's ' Birds of New Guinea.' 



[The Birds of New Guinea and the adjacent Papuan Islands, including 



