102 Recent Ornithological Publications. 



in the Am and Ke Islands, with descriptions of new species 

 (p. 169). A Tanysiptera, a Ptilorhijnchus, five Parrots*, and as 

 many splendid Pigeons, are amongst Mr. Wallace's most brilliant 

 discoveries, as here recorded. A useful table appended gives 

 the distribution of the species in New Guinea, the Aru and Ke 

 Islands, the Louisiade Archipelago, Waigiou, Timor-laut, Noi'th- 

 ern Australia, and Torres Straits. M. Meves' communication 

 (p. 199) is on the humming-noise of some of the Snipes, which 

 it now said to be produced by the peculiarly-shaped outer tail- 

 feathers. Mr. Sclater^s papers are on the birds collected by 

 Mr. Bridges in California (p. 1 ) ; on a collection of birds from 

 the Rio Napo (p. 57); on some birds from Southern Mexico 

 (p. 95) ; on new or little-known Accipitres from the Norwich Mu- 

 seum (p. 128) ; a Synopsis of the Formicariidce (pp. 202, 232 

 and 272) ; on the Magellanic Goose (p. 289) ; on new Tanagers 

 (p. 293) ; on a collection of birds from Oaxaca (p. 294) ; on a 

 new Buteo (p, 356) ; and on birds collected by Capt. Taylor in 

 Honduras (p. 356). Among the birds from the Rio Napo, are 

 two very beautiful new forms of Tanagridse, Euchaies coccineus 

 and Creurgops verticalis (pi. 132). Dr. Hartlaub describes " new 

 species of birds from Western Africa in the Collection of the 

 British Museum^' (p. 291). Dr. J. E. Gray makes remarks on 

 the eggs of the new Cassowary (C. hennettii), of which two some- 

 what dissimilar examples are in the British Museum (p. 271). 

 Dr. Krefft gives an interesting notice ou the habits and nesting 

 of Pomatorhinus ruficeps, Hartlaub, of Australia. 



The 'Annals of Natural History' for the year 1858, besides 

 giving most of the important papers read before the Zoological 

 Society, contain (No. 10) — " Description of a new Grass-tinch 

 from New Caledonia," by John Macgillivray ; (No. 12) a paper 

 " On a peculiar process attached to the Ischium in Erucivores," 

 by T. C. Eyton ; and the "Description of a new species of 

 bird from Palestine," by P. L. Sclater. Out of the many species 

 of birds in New Caledonia, Mr. Macgillivray has unfortunately 

 selected one of the few, which are already known to the scientific 

 world, to describe as new. As Dr. Hartlaub has shown in a 



* We must, however, express a doubt of the distinctness of Chalcopsitta 

 rnhrifrons from C.scintillata (Temm.). 



