446 Recently imhlished Ornithological Works. 



var. n. minor, Timor-Laut ; Leptotodus, gen. n., type L. 

 tenuis, sp. n. (figured), Amberbaki, New Guiuea; M'lcro- 

 lestes, gen. n., type M. arfakianm, sp. n.^ Arfak Moun- 

 tains, New Guinea ; Gerygone biniaculata, sp. n., Arfak 

 Mountains, New Guinea ; Grancalus timorlaomsis , sp. n. 

 (figured), Timor Laut ; Corvus latirostris, sp. n., Timor Laut ; 

 Pachycepliala a-ffinis, sp. n., Arfak Mountains ; Oxypogon 

 stuebelii, sp. u., Volcano of Tolima, Colombia ; Chlorostilbon 

 stuebelii, sp. n., Yungas, Bolivia; Cinnyris henkei, sp. n. 

 (figured), coll. Frank; Zosterops incerta, sp. n. (locality un- 

 known) ; Turdinus sepiarius (Horsf.), var. n. minor, Java; 

 Geocichla schistacea, sp. n. (figured), Timor Laut; Macro- 

 pygia timorlaoensis, sp. n., Timor Laut ; T7-opidorhynchus 

 aruensis, sp. n., Aru Islands ; Stigmatops salvadorii, Timor 

 Laut, and S. kebirensis, Kebir, spp. nn. 



123. Mitchell's ' Birds of Lancashire.' 



[The Birds of Lancashire. By F. S. Mitchell. 8vo. Loudon : 1885.] 



This is an excellent book, and, in its way, almost perfect 

 — which is saying a good deal. The introductory remarks, 

 especially those on the value of observations on migration, 

 deserve careful consideration at the present time, when there 

 is a distinct tendency to the mere accumulation of a mass of 

 undigested facts — a joroceeding which must end in weariness. 

 A map, coloured plates by Keulemans of those Lancashire 

 rarities the Black-throated Wheatear [Saxicola stapazind) 

 and the Wall-creeper [Tichodroma murarici), and woodcuts of 

 decoys &c. embellish the work. Worthy of notice, as a fact 

 not generally known, is the remarkable decrease of late years 

 in the numbers of the Green Woodpecker and of the W^ry- 

 neck — the latter seldom breeding in Lancashire now, although 

 it appears to have been a regular visitor there up to about 

 the middle of the century. 



124. More on Irish Birds. 



[A List of Irish Birds, showing the Species contained in the Science 

 and Art Museum, Dublin. By A. G. More, F.L.S., M.R.LA., Curator of 

 the Natural-History Museum, Dublin, 1885, pp. 32.] 



