456 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



The species enumerated amount to 205^, most of them 

 known to occur in other portions of the Iberian Peninsula. 

 Provided the identifications are correct, tlie most interesting 

 for distribution are Picus medius and Loxia pityopsittacus, 

 the latter new to the Peninsula. About 10 species which 

 may be expected to be found in Portugal are as yet unrepre- 

 sented in the Coimbra Museum. 



79. Gurney's List of the Diurnal Birds of Prey. 



[A List of the Diuiual Birds of Prey, with references and annotations ; 

 also a record of specimens preserved in the Norfolk and Norwich Museum. 

 By John Henry Gurney. 8vo. London : 1884.] 



This list was originally intended to serve as an Index to 

 Mr. Gurney^s series of critical articles which have appeared 

 in this Journal on Mr. Sharpens ' Catalogue of the Diurnal 

 Birds of Prey.' With this the author subsequently deter- 

 mined to combine a list of all the species and subspecies of 

 Birds of Prey known to him, and to add a few of the most 

 necessary references, together with a statement of the number 

 of specimens of each species in the Norwich Museum. This 

 rich collection, Mr. Gurney tells us, contains 2895 sjoecimens 

 representing 383 species and subspecies of Accipitres, and 

 1009 specimens representing 171 species of Striges. 



To his most useful list Mr. Gurney adds a series of 15 

 appendices (A to O), containing essays on various moot 

 points in the history of the Accipitres. In one of these a 

 new Kestrel {Tinnunculus arthari) from Mombasa is de- 

 scribed for the first time. 



80. Harvie-Brown on Records of Migration. 



[On the Occurrence of the Little Gull {Larus ruinutus) in the Island of 

 North Uist ; with Remarks on the Objects of the International Ornitho- 

 logists' Congress at Vienna, and on Uniformity of Method in recording 

 Rare Species in future. By John A. Harvie-Brown. Proc. Roy. Phys. 

 Soc. Edinb. vol. viii. p. 105. 



Method in recording Observatitms. By John A. Harvie-Brown. Zool. 

 1884, p. GO.] 



In our last number (p. 319) wc ])rintcd a letter from our 



