Ornithological Literature of 1871. 447 



NiNNi, A. p. 



Catalogo degli Uccelli del Veneto. i.-iii. Accipitres, Passeres, 

 Columbse, Grallse et Palmipedes. Venezia : 1868-70. 8vo. 

 This work, referred to by Doderlein [op. supra cit.), we have 

 not seen [cf. Zool. Rec. 1869, p. 36). 



NoRDvi, A. G. 



Anas stelleri in Europa briltend. J. f. 0. 1871, p. 208. 



Notice of the discovery of this Duck breeding on the northern 

 coast of Russian Finmark, in the month of June. 



Ogden, J. A. 



Synopsis of the Genus Chettusia (Lobivanellus)^ with a De- 

 scription of a new Species. Pr. Ac. Phil. 1871, pp. 194-196. 



The author recognizes sixteen species of this genus, including 



Chettusia nivifrons, which he describes as new. [But cf. Finsch, 



ibid, 1872, p. 32.] It is said to be from " Fazoglow " [Qu. Fa- 



zoklo, in Abyssinia ?] . Specimens of all but four of the species 



under review are in the Museum of the Academy of Philadelphia. 



Orde, J. W. P, 



Letter from. Ibis, 1871, p. 112. 

 On a QuaiPs nest in North Uist. 



Orton^ James. 



1. Notes on some Birds in the Museum of Vassar College. Am. 

 Nat. iv. pp. — . 



These notes apply chiefly to the type specimens of birds con- 

 tained in the Vassar-College Museum. The types described by 

 Giraud in his " Sixteen new Birds from Texas " were formerly in 

 this collection, but have now passed into that of the Smithsonian 

 Institution. The remaining notes refer to birds recently de- 

 scribed by Mr. Lawrence. 



2. On the Condors and Humming-birds of the Equatorial Andes. 

 Ann. & Mag. N. H. ser. 4, viii. pp. 185-192. 



Contains an account of Sarcorhamphus gnjphus and of various 



species of Humming-birds found in Ecuador. 



Owen, Professor. 



1. Ou Dinornis (Part xv.) : containing a Description of the 



