322 Recent Ornithologicnl Publications. 



press relating to the 'Raptores' — tlie first of Mr. Ey ton's 

 Orders. 



2. French Publications. 



The numbers of the ' Revue et Magasin de Zoologie ' for 

 February, March, and April of this year have reached us. They 

 contain several articles on Ornithology. (1) " Description ct 

 figure d'une nouvelle espece di'Euphonia'' by Ch. F. Dubois. 

 This Guatemalan Euphonia {E. crjaneidorsalis) seems diflferent 

 from the Mexican E. occipitalis, though closely allied to it. It 

 is, therefore, very probable that the bird included in the list of 

 Guatemalan species {antea,^.\7) as Ckloropkonia occipitalis resWy 

 belongs to the latter species. We request Sir William Jardine's 

 attention to this point. (2) " Notes Ornithologiques," by M. A. 

 Moquin-Tandon ; a continuation of that gentleman's notes on 

 the Birds of Southern France. (3) " Notes sur quelques Oiseaux 

 du Mexique," by M. H. de Saussure. Three new species are 

 described, Hypotriorchis fert'ugineus, Acanthylis semicollaris, and 

 Quiscalus sumichrasti, and other notes are given. (4) " Notice 

 sur un vieux male de Canard siffleur a plumage de femelle," by 

 M. L. Roget, of Geneva. 



We have managed to procui'e, after some trouble, the number 

 of the Scientific Journal — ' L'Institut' — which contains Dr.Pu- 

 cheran's article entitled " Oiseaux des Isles Sandwich," alluded to 

 in our last Number. It is No. 1306, published 12th Jan. 1859. 

 The article appears to have been the substance of a communica- 

 tion made to the Societe Philomathique of Paris, and relates to 

 the general character of the peculiar Avifauna of the Sandwich 

 Islands. In No. 1310 of the same Journal, pubHshed 9th Feb, 

 1859, is a second paper by the same author, read before the 

 same learned body : — " Observations sur deux especes de Pas- 

 sereaux originaires des A9ores." The discovery of a new species 

 of the limited group of true Fringilla in the Azores {Fringilla 

 moreleti) is of great interest. The bird appears to be allied to 

 F. canariensis and F. teydea of the Canaries. The second Pas- 

 serine mentioned is, strange to say, the Greater Bullfinch of 

 Europe {Pyrrhula coccinea). The occurrence of these European 

 forms in the Azores tends to throw these islands into the same 

 category as the Canaries and Madeira, and to show that they 



