202 Recent Ornitho logical Publications. 



head, now in the Museum of Marseilles. But we cannot regard 

 the S. Victoire Eagle {Aquila barthelemyi) as being really dif- 

 ferent from Aquila chrijsaetos, and we believe we may state that 

 Mr. Gurney, who has living specimens in his possession, is 

 nearly of the same opinion. 



It is stated that Dr. Pucheran, of the Jardin des Plantes, has 

 lately published in the 'Institut* a paper " sur les caracteres 

 generales de POrnithologie des lies Sandwich," read before the 

 Societe Philomathique ; but we have not yet seen it. 



The last five numbers of the 'Revue et Magasin de Zoo- 

 logie' for last year and the first for this year have been re- 

 ceived. The papers relating to ornithology are (p. 346), "Note 

 sur les Lamprotornin(e" (quaere Lumprotornithin(E ?), by M. Hart- 

 laub. Dr. Hartlaub has, we are glad to say, in preparation a 

 complete monograph of this difficult group of birds. " De- 

 scription de deux nouvelles especes d^Oiscaux decouvertes dans 

 le Sahara Algerieu," par le Capitaine Loche : Stoparola deserti 

 and Malurus saharce. These appear to be the Sylvia deserticola 

 and Drymoica striaticeps of Mr. Tristram, described in our last 

 Number ; but the figure of the former is barely recognizable. 

 " Description d'un Perroquet nouveau," Microsittace souancii 

 (p. 437), and " Observations sur le Perroquet mercenaire de 

 Tsehudi" (p. 513), by M. Jules Verreaux. The article called 

 "Observations d'Ornithologie," by Dr. Pucheran, is in continua- 

 tion of that author's valuable notes on the types of the Museum 

 of Paris. 



M. de Saussure's series of " Observations sur les Moeurs de 

 divers Oiseaux de Mexique," in the ' Bibliotheque Universel/ 

 published at Geneva, are remarkably interesting. The first of 

 these (Bibl. Univ. 1858, i. p. 331) relates to the singular habits 

 of a Woodpecker {Culaptes rubricatus, sive mexicanus), which 

 stores up its acorns in the stems of aloes [Agave) ; the second 

 (vol. iii. p. 14), to the habits of Humming-birds [Trochilidie) ; 

 the third [ibid. p. 168), to the Vultures; and the fourth and fifth 

 (1859, vol. iv. p. 22), to the Trupials, Trogons, Anis, &c. 



3. German PuiiLiCATioxs. 

 We have before us the fourth part of F. W. J. Baedeker's 



