Recently published Ornithological Works. 93 



pleased to see^ and, moreover, appears with most comraend- 

 able regularity, vol. iii. for last year being now complete. 

 Amongst many interesting papers in the last number, Mr. 

 H. A. Purdie describes the nest and eggs oi Empidonax fla- 

 viventris, and Mr. Osborne continues a note on the same 

 subject; Dr. Elliot Coues gives a "useful hint to egg-col- 

 lectors '," and the capture of ^ fifth specimen of that vara avis, 

 Helminthophaga leucobronchialis , is announced. 



2. ' Bulletin ' of the Zoological Society of France. 



[Bulletin de la Societe Zoologique de France pour I'annee 1877. 2^ vol. 

 Paris, 1877.] 



The Bulletin of the Zoological Society of France for 1877, 

 which is now complete, contains several important ornitho- 

 logical papers, besides those which we have already noticed 

 from separate copies, namely : — 



(1) Barboza du Bocage (J. V.), ''Note sur les races geo- 

 graphiques, on especes de Bucorax '^ (p. 373). 



The three forms B. abyssinicus, B. guineensis, and B. caffer 

 are accurately distinguished; and Mr. Elliotts lately described 

 B. pyrrhops (Ann. N. H. ser. 4, xx. p. 171) is referred to 

 the adult of B. guineensis, 



(2) Bouvier (A.), " Le Barbican a ventre rose, Pogono- 

 rhynchus Le Vaillantii" (p. 7Q). 



The supposed new P. eogaster, Cab. J. f. O. 1876, p. 92, is 

 shown to be = P. levaillanti, Leach [Barbican a ventre rose 

 of Lev.), a species confounded by all modern authors with 

 P. bidentatus. 



(3) Bouvier (A), " Faune ornithologique de Kessang, 

 presqu'ile de Malacca, l''^ liste'' (p. 292). 



Gives a list of 31 species, of which specimens have been 

 collected at Kessang (between Malacca and Mount Ophir) 

 by M. Holland. 



(4) Bouvier (A), " Sur une collection ornithologique de 

 FUganda, royaumede M^Tesa, Afrique centrale (P' article)," 

 (p. 437). 



Contains a list of birds obtained by M. Piaggia in Uganda 

 (the kingdom of Mesa). Of 34 species, one, Turdus piaggi(B, 

 allied to T. gurneyi and T. crossleyi, is described as ucw. 



