90 Recent Ornithological Publications. 



Pumutorfiinus, Hydrochelidon, Centropus, and Cinclus. We hope 

 that Mr. Svvinhoe may be induced to supply this Journal with a 

 more perfect account of the birds of this little-known island, and 

 that he will be able to tell us whether Dr. Pucheran* is correct 

 in stating that the curious Parrot, Dasijptilus fulgidus, is found 

 there. The general chai'acter of the ornithology would lead us 

 to doubt the presence of a Parrot in this locality. 



Mr. Blyth's "lleporf' for May, 1859, of the additions made 

 to the Museum of the Asiatic Society of Calcutta, published in 

 the 'Journal^ of that Society (for an early copy of which we are 

 much indebted to the author), contains several notices relating to 

 Birds. The species from the Andamans have already been men- 

 tioned in Mr. Blyth^s letter (vol. i. p. 465 ; see also infra, p. 99). 

 The Burmese Kestrel is Tinminculus saturatus, — not ' atratus,' as 

 we had given it in 'The Tbis,' vol. i. p. 211. Mr. Blyth now 

 distinguishes his Macrorhamphus semipalmatus of India not only 

 specifically but generically from the North American M. griseus, 

 under the title Pseuduscolopax ; and states, as the result of an 

 examination of 'a fine adult exauiple of a British Peregrine,^ 

 that it " quite bears out the opinion of Prince Bonaparte, Mr. 

 Gould, and others, that the Bauri Palcon of India should be 

 recognized as distinct, by the name Falco calidus, Latham. A 

 glance suffices to distinguish them." 



The Third Number of Mr. Eyton^s ' Osteologia Avium ' has 

 been delivered to the subscribers. The letter-press finishes the 

 ^second order, denominated by Mr. Eyton Volitores (Volatores?), 

 which embraces the Trochilidce and Cypselidce, and commences 

 the third order, Omnivores ( Omnivone ?) . 



The last three numbers of ' The Zoologist^ for 1859 contain 

 (pp. 6709 and 6761) a continuation of Mr. Osburn's " Notes on 

 the Mountain-Birds of Jamaica," in which he again mentions the 

 Black Banana-bird {Nesopsar nigenimus), and enters at length 

 upon the habits of the Swifts and Swallows of those regions. 

 Mr. Swinhoe's "Description of the small Chinese Lark" (p. 6723), 



* Rev. ct Map. de Zool. 1853, p. 156. 



