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Recent Ornithological Publications. 



Part 15. (May 1st, 1858.) 



1 . Eriocnemis derbianus. 



2. „ nigrivestis. 



3. „ isaacsoui. 



4. Trochilus colubris. 



5. Phaethornis obscurus. 



6. „ viridicaudata. 



7. Lampornis grarnineus. 



8. „ porphyrurus. 



Part 16. (Sept. 1st, 1858.) 



9. Lampornis veraguensis. 



10. „ auruleutus. 



11. ,, prevosti. 



12. Cometes? glyceria. 



13. Heliopcedioa melanotis. 



14. ErythroTiota edwardi. 



15. „ niveiventris. 



1 . Phaeolsema rubinoides. 



2. Helidoxa jacula. 



3. Discura longicauda. 



4. Phaethornis superciliosus. 



5. ,, cephalus. 



6. Sternoclyta cyaneipectus. 

 7- Thalurania furcata. 



8. ,, columbica. 



9. Thalurania venusta. 



10. ,, eriphile. 



11. „ verticeps. 



12. Microchera albicoroaata. 



13. Chrysobronchus virescens. 



14. „ viridicaudus. 



15. Chrysuronia eliciae. 



We look forward with great anxiety to the completion of this 

 great work (which we believe we may shortly expect) ; and we 

 hope that Mr. Gould in his introduction will not only give us 

 a simple, understandable arrangement of this difficult group, but 

 also some structural characters for the recognition of the multi- 

 tude of genera into which it is now divided, and which appear 

 to be still increasing, three new generic terms having been pub- 

 lished in these last two parts. 



The Tenth Part of ' The Birds of Asia' contains figures of 



1. Phasianus mongolicus. 



2. Ceriornis caboti. 



3. Pyrrhula aurantia. 



4. Parus cinereus. 

 6. „ minor. 



6. „ monticolus. 



7. Palseornis columboides. 



8. „ schisticeps. 



Of these, Ceriornis caboti, Pyrrhula aurantia, and Paleeornis 

 affinis are all new and most interesting additions to the respect- 

 ive groups to which they belong. Accentor huttoni and A. varie- 

 gatus of the Himalayas have been judiciously united to the 

 Siberian A. atrigularis and A. altaicv^ respectively, and, as it 

 seems to us, upon satisfactory evidence. The latter bird is nearly 



