188 Recentli/ published Ornitholoyical Works. 



Hydrophasian'us CHIRURGUS (Scopoli). April, June, July 

 (Tissa). The nest is a small shallow patch of weeds on the 

 water. The young nestling is black, with a bright brown 

 streak down the middle of the head and back, and another 

 down each side. Iris dark brown, nearly black. 



EsAcus RECURviROSTRis (Cuv.) . March (to east of Tissa) . 



PoDiCEPs FLUviATiLis (Tunst.). May (young), June 

 (Tissa) . A floating nest of weeds. 



Dendrocygna JAVANICA (Horsf.). June, July (Tissa). 

 One nest in long grass, on the surface of the water, was 

 cleverly domed. 



Phcenicopterus ROSEUS (Pall.). According to natives who 

 have correctly described the nest of the Flamingo, the breed- 

 ing-season is early in the year, about March, in the south- 

 east. 



Xenorhynchus asiaticus (Lath.). Mr. Byrde, Assistant 

 Government Agent at Mannar, obtained two young birds last 

 year, about March, from a nest in his district. They are quite 

 tame, and stalk about near his house. 



Herodias alba (Linn.). The bill of the Great Egret is 

 yellow in the breeding- season. 



Herodias intermedia (Wagler). The bill of this Egret 

 is yellow in the breeding-season. 



XXV. — Notices of Recent Ornithological Publications. 



[Continued from p. 98.] 

 30. Adrianof on the Birds of North-western Mongolia. 



[Ocherki Severo-Zapadnoi Mongolii. G. N. Potanin. Vypusk iii. 

 St. Petersburg-: 188-3. 8vo.] 



The above is as much as need be given of the Russian 

 title of M. Potanin's rejjort of his travels in North- 

 western Mongolia in 1879-80, through a region of large 

 lakes receiving the drainage of tlie mountain-ranges on the 

 confines of Russia and China. At pp. 241-243 is a list of 



