186 Recent Ornithological Publications. 



and Ellis during the three voyages undertaken by the great 

 circumnavigator Cook. To them are added those recorded in the 

 Zoological portion of the different foreign voyages of discovery, 

 as well as others which have been procured by the more modern 

 collectors." 



The Catalogue is certainly a most useful book of reference 

 for Ornithologists, and must have cost much time and labour 

 in its compilation. 



The number of species enumerated as found within the area 

 above mentioned appears to be nearly as follows : — 



lu B. M. Not 



1. Accipitres 2 12 



11. Passeres 63 



III. Scansores 12 



IV. Columbffi 24 



V. Gallinffi 2 



VI. Cursores 1 



VII. Grail* 11 



VIII. Anseres 6 



121 216 337 



It must be remarked, however, that " specimens of some of 

 the species" noted as not in the British Museum from these 

 islands are there from other localities ; also that some of the 

 names included in the list are probably synonyms of others, 

 such as " Tatare longirostris (?)," which we have already shown to 

 be = Tatare otaitiensis (Ibis, 1859, p. 327). Some others are 

 probably due to errors in locality. It would have been a good 

 plan to have given the name of the authority after each locality. 

 This, however, can be generally obtained from the accompanying 

 synonyms. 



Besides the " Narrative of a Visit to the Island of Formosa,** 

 mentioned in our last Number (p. 89), the second part of the 

 ' Journal of the North-China Branch of the Royal Asiatic So- 

 ciety ' (Shanghai, May 1859) contains a second paper by Mr. 

 Swinhoe, entitled " Notes on some new Species of Birds found 

 on the Island of Formosa." The following species are described : 

 Calamanthella tintinnabulans, C, volitans, Prinia striata, Hydro- 



