604 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



WoUongoug, and of Pachycephala olivacea in the same 

 district. 



104. Rathbun's 'Bright Feathers,' 



[Bright Featliers, or some North-American Birds of Beauty. By Frank 

 R. Rathburn. Parts III. & IV. 8vo. Auburn, N. Y.: 1882.] 



Mr. Rathbun's third and fourth parts (c/. Ibis, antea, p. 173) 

 contain illustrations of and articles upon Chrysomitris tristis 

 and Dendroeca (Estiva. 



105. Reichenow and Schaloiv on the Ornithological Litera- 

 ture of 1880. 



[Zoologischer Jahresbericht fiir 1880. Herausgegeben von der zoolo- 

 gischen Station zu Neapel. Royal 8vo. Leipzig: 1881. ^^ves, pp. 185- 

 244. Referenten : Dr. A. Reicheuow und H. Schalow in Berlin.] 



So much offence seems to have been taken at our notice of 

 Messrs. Reichenow and Schalow^s report for 1879 (Ibis, 1881, 

 p. 485), that on the present occasion we think it best to 

 withhold all criticism, and merely to record the due issue 

 of their report for 1880. At the same time we protest empha- 

 tically against the strongly personal tone of the remarks 

 (reported Ornith. Centralbl. 1881, p. 159, and Journ. f. Orn. 

 1881, p. 426) on our former critique, which was written for 

 the Editors by a member of the B. O. U., in whose good faith 

 and knowledge of his subject they can confidently rely, and 

 who has furnished us with the following rejoinder to some 

 of Messrs. Reichenow and Schalow's observations^ to which 

 we think it right to give place : — 



'' Messrs. Reichenow and Schalow state that they are 

 unjustly accused of omitting from their Aves for 1879 a 

 number of species described as new by Mr. E. P. Ramsay 

 (Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, iii. pt. 3, pp. 245-305), 

 because, as they assert, that part was published, and its con- 

 tents should therefore have been recorded, in 1878. They 

 are wrong in this point; but if the matter were as they state, 

 why do they themselves, at p. 1130, record in 1879 the very 

 paper above cited ? The fact is they have recorded the paper, 



