100 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



captivity. The second volume will contain the insectivorous 

 groups, and the third the Parrots. The work will be most 

 useful, when complete, to the numerous keepers of cage-birds. 

 Fourteen colour- printed plates illustrate 72 species. 



21. Russ on a new Parrot. 



[Eine wahrscheinlicli bisher nocli niclit beschxiebene Papageienart. 

 Von Dr. Carl Euss. Die gefiederte Welt, Jalirg. vii. p. 359 (29. Aug. 

 1878.] 



Of six young Parrakeets of the genus Palaornis bought 

 by Dr. Bodinus at the Antwerp sale in 1 875, two came into 

 Dr. Euss's collection. These have now attained maturity, 

 and, though allied to the Blossom-headed Parrakeet (P. cyano- 

 cephalus) , are regarded by Dr. Russ as belonging to an allied 

 species, distinguishable both in the mature and immature 

 dress, which Dr. Russ proposes to call P. bodini. The size 

 is smaller; the sea-green neck-band is wanting; and the 

 middle tail-feathers are not blue, but green. But is not this 

 P. rosa (Bodd.) ? Cf. Reichenow, Orn. Centrabl. iii. p. 182 

 (no. 23). 



22. Salvadori on new Species of Rectes. 



[Osservazioni intovno alia supposta identita specifica deUa Rectes cirrho- 

 eephala (Less.) e della Rectes dichroa, Bp., e descrizione di due nuove 

 specie del genere Rectes, Rclib., per Tommaso Salvadori. Ann. Mus. 

 Genov. xii, p. 471.] 



The author shows, in opposition to the ^dews of Dr. IVTeyer 

 and Mr. Sharpe (Cat. B. iii. p. 284) that Rectes dichrous is 

 not the adult form of R. cirrhocephala (lege cirrocephalus) , 

 but a distinct species. Rectes decipiens is proposed as the 

 name for an intermediate form, from the southern shores of 

 the Bay of Geelvink ; and R. holerythrus, from Jobi (allied 

 to R. ferrugineus) , is described as new. 



23. Saunders on the Distribution of the Laridse. 



[On the Geographical Distribution of the Gulls and Terns (Laridae). 

 By Howard Saunders, F.L.S., F.Z.S. Journ. Linn. Soc. (Zoology) xiv. 

 p.' 390.] 



In this essay Mr. Howard Saunders enters at some length 



