45() Recently jjuhlished Ornltholoyicul Works. 



Ill his treatment of the species of the geuus Leploptila 

 (p. 158 et seqq.) Prof. Schlegel has fallen into great confu- 

 sion. The bird called L.jamaicensis is probably L. verreauxi. 

 The true L.jamaicensis, probably the bird here called L. 

 albifroiis, is purely Antillean, whereas L. verreauxi is found 

 in the northern portions of South America and as far north 

 as Costa Rica^ being replaced in Guatemala by L. albifrons 

 (not the bird here so called) . The bird called L. cassiui, from 

 Mexico (Guatemala?), is L. cerviniventris, as Prof. Schlegel 

 would at once have seen had he possessed specimens from 

 Panama. The genus Geotrygon is suppressed, and the species 

 usually included in it are placed in Starnoenas, a name solely 

 applicable to S. cyanocephala. This species alone, amongst 

 American Pigeons, has reticulated tarsi, like Goura ! 



The last portion of this livraisou contains a review of the 

 Bii-ds of Prey. We notice (p. 14) that Wagler^s name Scops 

 trichopsis is placed as a synonym of S. flammeola ! this is quite 

 wrong (c/. antea, p. 314). The Kestrel of the Island of St. 

 A'incent, of the Cape-Verd group, is characterized under the 

 name of Falco neglectus ; this Mr. Sharpe (Cat. B. i. p. 428) 

 considei-s to be only a dark race of F. tinnunculus. 



Circus poHopterus (p. 49) , treated as a separate species, is 

 the female of C cinereus. Astur hensti (p. 6.2) is described 

 as a new species from Madagascar ; its neai'cst ally appears 

 to be -4. pahonbai'iiis. 



The Spai-row-hawk from Bogota, called (p. 70) Nisus ery- 

 throcnemius, must surely be A. ventralis. This, too, would 

 have been apparent to Prof. Scldegel had he possessed Bra- 

 zilian specimens. 



All the North- American Buzzards except B. Uneatus and 

 B. pennsylvanicus are united to B. borealis (p. 107). These 

 birds have been carefully worked out by Mr. Ridgway (N. Am. 

 B. iii. p. 244 et ^e^r.), whose views, by far the most correct, we 

 believe, that have yet been published, diflFer widely from 

 those of Professor Schlegel. 



The appendix to Mr. Brenchley's 'Cruise of the Cura9oa'^ 



* Jottings dm-ing the Cruise of H.M.S. ' Cui'a9oa ' among the South- 

 Sea Islands in 18t>3. By Julius Brenchky, M.A. Large 8vo, pp. 474. 

 London : 1873. 



