106 Recently published Ornithological JVorks. 



An illustration is given of a decorticated variety of a 

 Moorhen, killed at Beckenliam in Norfolk, in Nov. 1857, and 

 now in the Cambridge Museum. Some woodcuts show that 

 the hair-like appearance of the feathers is due to the absence 

 of the barbules from the anterior portion of the vane of each 

 feather, and with this substance has gone a great deal of the 

 colouring-matter. Five, if not seven, examples of this variety- 

 have been obtained in Norfolk, and others have occurred in 

 Nottinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Hampshire, Suffolk, Sus- 

 sex, and one at Athlone in Ireland. 



20. Haast on the Grey Phalarope in New Zealand. 



[On the Oftcurrence of PhnlaropusfuUcanas, Pennant (the Eed Phala- 

 rope), in New Zealand. By Julius von Haast, C.M.G., Ph.D., F.R.S. 

 Tr. and Pr. New Zealand Inst. xvi. p. 279.] 



An example of this straggler from the north occurred in 

 June 1883, on the beach near the Wairaate lagoon. New 

 Zealand. It was shot flying alone. 



21. Homey er and Tancrt on the Birds of the Altai. 



[Beitriige zur Kenntniss der Ornithologie Westsibiriens, namontlich der 

 Altai-Gogend. Von E. F. von Homoyer und C. A. Tuncr^. Mitth. d. 

 ornith. Ver. in Wien, 1883, p. 81.] 



The authors follow generally the nomenclature and 

 arrangement of Dr. Finsch's article on the birds of Western 

 Siberia published in 1879 (Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 

 p. 115), supplementing it by the results obtained by their 

 own collector on the Altai ; the exact localities, however, 

 are not given. The list contains 204- species, of Avhich 

 Starna robusta is described as new. It is apparently a larger 

 and brighter form of Perdix cinerea. Sturnus poltoratzkyi 

 of Finsch is condemned as a bad species. 



22. Joxiy on the Birds of Japan. 



[Ornithological Notes on Collections made in Japan from June to 

 December, 1882. By Pierre Louis Jouv. Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. 1883, 

 p.273.] 



Accompanied by Mr. A. J. M. Smith, ^Ir. .Tony made an 



