Recently published Ornithological Works. 359 



dered easily accessible to English ornithologists, and enriched 

 by the addition of a valuable Appendix by Prof. Garrod, who 

 has recently devoted so much attention to the structure of 

 the vocal organs of Birds and to other details of their ana- 

 tomy. In the Appendix Prof. Garrod discusses the peculiar 

 characters of the Passeres and of their subdivisions, and de- 

 scribes the vocal organs (unknown to Miiller) of Pitta, Cora- 

 cina (after Burmeister) , Hijlactes, Grallaria, Lijjcmgus, lletero- 

 pelma, Hadrostomus , M emir a, and Atrichia. Two additional 

 plates are given to illustrate the syringes of these forms. 

 This is altogether an excellent piece of work. 



65. Newton on Hawking in Norfolk. 



[Hawking in Norfolk. By Alfred Newton, M.A., F.R.S. Reprinted 

 from LuLbcck's * Fauna of Norfolk,' 2ud edition.] 



Prof. Newton^s aim in these notes is to supplement the 

 account of hawking in Norfolk given in Lubbock's ' Fauna ' 

 and Stevenson^s ' Birds of Norfolk." Extracts are given from 

 the " Paston letters " (1472), and from the MSS. of Von Ven- 

 denheym, who hawked with James 1st in 1610, and other 

 ■writers. Finally some account is added of the hawking ad- 

 ventures of the late Mr. Edward Clough Newcome, of Felt- 

 well Hall, and of the B. O. Union, who was so well known to 

 many of us for his devotion to this almost extinct sport. 



QQ. Oustalet on a new Bronze Starling. 



[Note sur ime nouvelle espece de Merle Lronze, par M. E. Oustalet. 

 Assoc. Scient. de France, Bull. no. 580, 1878.] 



The new species, from the Loss Islands, south of Sene- 

 gambia, about 9° north latitude, is called Lamprocolivs iris, 

 and the new subgenus Coccycolius proposed for it, from its 

 exterior res emblance to Chrysococcyx, The type is in the 

 Jardin des Plantes. 



67. Pelzeln's Report on the Progress of Ornithology in 1877 . 



[Bericht liber die Leistungeu in der Naturgeschichte der Vogel wjih- 

 rend des Jahres 1877. Von August von Pelzelu. Wiegm. Arch, xxxxiv. 

 pp. 1-80.] 



Of Ilerr v. Pelzeln's Report on the ornithological litera- 



