420 Recent Ornithological Publications. 



hatcb \_Sitta europcea, auct. Brit.] should not yet have been ob- 

 served in the Isle of Wight, since it is a bii-d common in Sussex, 

 and considered by Mr. Knox as partially migratory.^' Falco 

 peregrinus still breeds in two or three localities, " but these fine 

 birds have been shamefully ill-used during these past few sea- 

 sons. Not only have their eyries been regularly plundered, but 

 the parents shot and trapped on the nest itself.^' Of Fregilus 

 graculus the doom seems as melancholy. " As it is, the Chough 

 is already extinct in Sussex, and the time is perhaps not far 

 distant when it will disappear from our cliflFs as well.^^ The 

 Hoopoe {Upupa epops) almost annually occurs, and when it pre- 

 sents itself, no doubt meets with the same unhappy reception as 

 awaits it in other parts of England ! 



The first part of the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 

 contains Mr. Blyth's Report on late accessions received by the 

 Zoological department, amongst which is a series of birds sent 

 by Mr. Swinhoe. Mr. Blyth's notes on these will be read with 

 interest, and, with his nomenclature, should be compared with 

 Mr. Swinhoe's article in this Journal. Some additional novel- 

 ties have appeared from the Andamans, including a Woodpecker 

 {Mullerijncus hodgei !), an Anthus [A. rufo super ciliaris) , and a 

 Thrush {Oreocincla infra-marginata) considered as new, and some 

 other species, known from elsewhere, but now recognized in the 

 Andamans for the first time. A description of Mr. Blyth's 

 new Cassowary {Casuarius uno-appendiculatus) is given, p. 112. 

 Remarks on this bird have been already given {antea, p. 402). 



2. French Publications. 



In No. 5 of the * Revue et Magasin de Zoologie' for the 

 present year, M. Jules Verreaux describes a new Wader from 

 Eastern Siberia (of which a figure is also given), under the name 

 Micropalama tacksanowskia. Mr. Blyth, of Calcutta, informs us 

 in a recent communication that this interesting bird is evidently 

 his Pseudoscolopax semipalmatus (see antea, p. 90) in summer dress 

 — a species which he had formerly referred to Macrorhamp/ms 

 (Journ. As. Soc.Beng. xvii. p. 252). " The seasonal change," says 



