200 Recent Ornithological Publications. 



ditional testimony to an improvement already made in our 

 modern systematizatiou of this gro up of birds. But Dr. Wein- 

 land has ah'eady written an elaborate article on this subject 

 in the second volume of Cabanis^ ' Journal fiir Ornithologie ' 

 (No. 12. p. Ixix.), and clearly shown the close connexion be- 

 tween Trichoglossiis and Lorius. Though we quite agree with 

 Mr. Wallace as to the slight difference between the genera Lorius 

 and Eos, we should prefer using the former name for the whole 

 group as united, it having been constituted by Vigors in 1826 

 (Zool. Journ. ii. p. 400), long before Wagler's Eos, and moreover 

 with the important character " lingua setosa " duly noticed. 



A lately published addition to the British iMuseura Catalogues 

 is that "of the Mammalia and Birds of New Guinea/' by Dr. 

 J. E. Gray and Mr. G. R. Gray. The list of birds is founded 

 on the article " On the Zoology of New Guinea," published in 

 the ' Proceedings of the Linnean Society' for December 1857, and 

 on the " List of Birds obtained by Mr. Wallace in the Aru and 

 Ke Islands/' by Mr. G. R. Gray, in the Proc. Zool. Soc. 1858 

 (p. 169). The catalogue will be useful now that so much atten- 

 tion is attracted towards this peculiar zoology by Mr. Wallace's 

 discoveries. One or two species, we think, are wrongly inserted ; 

 for instance, Eurijstomus gularis and Tchitrea gaimardi are now 

 well known to be African species *. Dacelo undulatus (p. 19) is 

 most probably Dacelo gigas of Australia, though it is possible 

 that it may be rediscovered as an independent species. Lorius 

 cardinalis (p. 39) is the same as Eclectus linncei (see P. Bp. in 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1849, p. 143). The true Geoffroius personatus 

 {Psittacus personatus of the catalogue) is from Amboyna. The 

 bird from New Guinea (Lobo) is, no doubt, Geoffroius aruensis, 

 which differs from G. personatus principally in its smaller size. 



The 'Edinburgh Philosophical Journal' for April 1859 contains 

 the second part of Mr. Andrew Murray's " Contributions to the 

 Natural History of the Hudson's Bay Territories." A list of 

 the birds is given, accompanied by many important remarks. 

 Two species of Grouse are said to have been confounded urder 

 the name Tetrao obscurus. A supposed new Bernicle is named 



* Confer Verreaux in Rev. Zool. 1855, p. 415. and Pucheran in Arch. 

 Mus. Par. vii 372. 



