Recent Ornithological Publications. 421 



Mr. Blyth, " is accordingly similar to that of Limosa rufa, which 

 is exactly what I had anticipated. I know of but two Indian 

 examples, both obtained in winter-dress, — one by myself in the 

 Calcutta provision-bazaars (Dec. 1.2th, 1847), and the other a 

 year or two previously by Jprdon, somewhere on the Coromandel 

 coast. Yerrcaux's bird being from N.E. Asia (Dahuria), we may 

 expect this to turn out to be a species chiefly of Eastern Asia/' 



We have received the sixth part of M. Malherbe's Monograph 

 of the Picida. It continues the description and illustration of 

 the multitudinous species of true Picus. 



3, German Publications. 



In the last part of Cabanis' 'Journal fiir Ornithologie ' for 

 1859 will be found some descriptions of new or little-known 

 birds, by Herr F. Heine, from his father's celebrated museum. 

 Coloburis rnfiventris and Tanysiptera margarethce are evidently 

 from Mr. Wallace's recent Batchian and Gilolo collections. The 

 former seems to be Mr. G.R.Gray's Pittainornata (P.Z.^. 1860, 

 p. 350), the latter his Tanysiptera isis (ibid. p. 347). We cannot 

 agree with Dr. Quistorp in doubting the specific difference of 

 Mihus afer from M. regalis, as he seems inclined to do {vide 

 p. 472). 



The second number of the same Journal for the present year 

 contains, amongst other articles, a continuation of Dr. Hartlaub's 

 Essay on the Ornithology of Madagascar, and an article by F. 

 Heine on the species of Cyanocorax. In the latter, several new 

 species (or local subspecies ?) are recognized. 



Herr August von Pelzeln has made a valuable contribution to 

 the ' Sitzungsberichte' of the Imperial Academy of Vienna (see 

 vol. Ixi. p. 319 et seq.), in the shape of some details concerning 

 the ornithology of Norfolk Island. The well-known artist, 

 F. L. Bauer, who accompanied Captain Flinders's expedition to 

 the Antipodes, in the commencement of the present century, as 

 botanical painter, having died in 1826, his collections and draw- 

 ings were sold by auction, and were purchased by the Imperial 

 Museum of Natural History. From their precious materials, 

 and some other acquisitions of the Imperial Cabinet, Herr von 



