164 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



specimens. It necessarily follows that Azara's Suiriri roxo 

 obscure (unde Tyrannus bellicosus of Vieillot) must be re- 

 fered to the same species, and not to the Peruvian bird. The 

 three species should therefore stand as follows : — 



a. Uropygio dorsoque concoloribus, fusco-nigricantibus. 

 a. Cauda unicolori. 



1. HiRUNDiNEA FERRUGiNEA (Gm.), cx Guiana et Ama- 

 zonia inf. {vide Ibis, 1869, p. 196, t. v. fig. 2). 



b'. Caudse rectricibus in pogonio interno ferrugineis. 



2. HiRUNDiNEA scLATERi, Rcinli., cx Pcruvia et Colombia 

 ( = H. bellicosa, Ibis, 1869, p. 196, t. v. fig. 1). 



b. Uropygio ferrugiueo. 



3. HiRUNDiNEA BELLICOSA (Vieill.), cx Brasilia, Paraguay, 

 et rep. Argent. { = H. rupestris, Ibis, 1869, p. 198, t. v. 

 fig. 3). 



XIII. — Notices of recent Ornithological Publications. 



1. Bennett on the Habits of the Black-breasted Buzzard. 



[Notes on the Habits of the Black-breasted Buzzard, Gi/poictinia mela- 

 nosternon, Gould. By K. H. Bennett. Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. vi. 

 p. 146.] 



Mr. Bennett believes this rare Australian bird to be con- 

 fined to the plains of the Murrumbidgee and Lachlan rivers, 

 ■where it feeds on reptiles' and birds' eggs. The nest and eggs 

 are described. 



2. Bocage on West-African Birds. 



[ Aves das possessoas portuguezas d'Af rica occidental. Vigesima primeira 

 lista. Per J. V. Barboza du Bocage. Jorn. Sci. Lisboa, no. xxx. Ifc'Sl.] 



Prof. J. V. Barboza du Bocage's twenty-first list gives 34 

 species, of which examples were collected at Caconda by 

 Sr, Anchieta at the end of 1880 and in January 1881. All 

 are known species. One example of Coracias spatulatus was 

 in the collection. 



