218 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



seem, then, ill chosen, seeing that the species to which they 

 are attached are known at the outset to have no such restric- 

 tion of range as these names indicate. 



Note vii. contains the description of a new Rhipidura, called 

 R. elegantula, from the Island of Lettie. 



In Note viii. Poecilodryas cinerea is described, one of Hr. 

 Bruijn discoveries in the Arfak Mountains. Mr. Sharpe also 

 revises the component species of this genus, and gives a list 

 of the eleven species which, according to his views, ought to 

 be placed in it. 



Note ix. records Mr. Sharpens recognition of the identity 

 of Muscicapa rufigula, Miill., with M. luteola, Pall., and M. 

 muglmaki, Temm. 



In Note X. Mr. Sharpe divides off the major portion of the 

 genus Gerygone, and places it in a new genus, Pseudogerygone. 

 In Gerygone, as restricted, he leaves seven species, whilst in 

 Pseudogerygone are placed twenty-four. A new species from 

 the Arfak Mountains is described as Pseudogerygone rubra. 



In Note xi. a new genus and species from the Arfak Moun- 

 tains is described as Clytomyias insignis. It belongs to the 

 Muscicapidffi, and is allied to Todopsis and Chenorhamphus. 



Note xii. relates to Campophagidse ; and an examination of 

 some of the types in the Leyden Museum enables Mr. Sharpe 

 to state that Volvocivora melanura, Hartl., is V. lugubris, 

 Sundevall, with half a tail (!), and that Lalage nychthemera is 

 identical with Oreicola melanoleuca (Vieill.) . Mr. Sharpe also 

 adds a note on Pericrocotus ardens and some of its allies. 



44. Sack's Llanos of Venezuela. 



[Alls den Llanos : Scliilderung einer naturwissenschaftlichen Reise 

 nach Venezuela. Von Carl Sachs. Mit Abbildungen. 8vo. Leipzig, 

 1878.] 



Evei*y naturalist should read this work, which contains a 

 most interesting account of the author^s expedition to the 

 Venezuelan Llanos in search of electric eels (Gymnotus), and 

 gives many notices of other animals. On the streams and 

 cauos of the Llanos, confluents of the Orinoco, Dr. Sachs 

 found the '' Guacharaca de Agua,'' i. e. Opisthocomus cris- 



