Ornithological Literature of 1870. 481 



members of this family, but which the author has not been able 

 to recognize, is added. The name Cosmeteira minima is pro- 

 posed for the Mysol race of C eques, Less., from Waigiou. The 

 paper concludes with a list of the Sunbirds described in the 

 Systema Naturae of Linnseus (12th ed.) and of Gmelin (13th ed.) 

 as determined by the author. Two species are figured, ^tho- 

 pi/(/a christince, Swinh., and Nedarophila grayi (Wall.). 



2. Letter from. Ibis, 1870, pp. 293-294. 



Relates to Mr. Hume's notes on the Yellow-headed Wagtails 

 of India. 



3. Descriptions of some new species of Birds from Southern 

 Asia. Ann. N. H. ser. 4, vol. v. p. 218. 



The species here described are Sitta neglecta from the Karen 

 Hills, Burma, Passer assimilis from Toungoo, Glaucomyias sordida 

 from Ceylon, Prima albogularis from Coorg, Megalama inornata 

 from IMalabar and Coorg, Buchaiiga leucogenis from Malacca, 

 Cambodja, China, and Japan, Buchanga mouhoti from Cambodja, 

 and Buchanga wallacei from Lombock. 



4. Descriptions of some new Species of Birds from Southern 

 Asia. Ann. N. H. ser. 4, vol. v. p. 416. 



The following species are described : — Geocichla layardi from 

 Ceylon, Irena turcosa from Java, and Ephialtes jerdoni from 

 Malabar. 



Wallace, A. R. 



Contributions to the theory of Natural Selection, a series of 



Essays. London : 1870. 8vo, pp. 384. 

 Of Ibis, 1870, p. 507. 



W^HITNEY, J. D. 



Geological Survey of Californian Ornithology, vol. i. Land-birds. 



Edited by S. F. Baird, from the M.S. and notes of J. G. 



Cooper. 1870, pp. 592. 



This is the first volume of an Ornithology of the State of 



California, and forms one of a series of zoological reports of the 



official Geological Survey of that flourishing state — the survey, 



" although called geological, having been intended to embrace 



within its scope natural history and topography." Dr. J. G. 



Cooper, the officer selected to prepare these reports by J. D. 



