lOS Recent Oi-nitholo(jical Publications. 



Dr. Linderoiayer's ' Vogel Griechenlands* ' is a useful sum- 

 mary of the observations of this well-kuown naturalist upon the 

 birds of the country in which he has so long resided, separately 

 reprinted from the third Yearly Report of the Natural-History 

 Union of Passau. It contains notices of 345 species of birds 

 considered as belonging to the fauna of Greece. Falco arcadius, 

 described originally in the ' Isis ' of 1843 (a name which has 

 met with much bad treatment from naturalists), Dr. Lindermayer 

 still maintains to be that of a good species, quite distinct from 

 F. eleonora and F. concolor, the latter bird having been once only 

 obtained by him in Greece, though Temminck says it is 'common ' 

 there. No fresh examples of this rare Falcon have been obtained 

 since it was first described ; but the younger Brehm is stated 

 to have obtained specimens of it in Kordofan, so that it is, per- 

 haps, a scarce occasional migrant to Europe. Dr. Lindermayer 

 says nothing of Corvus monedula, var. collaris, which is, to say 

 the least of it, a very noticeable climatal form of C. monedula, 

 but considers MotaciUa melanocephala (which is a regular summer- 

 visitant) as a good species. Larus cachinnans of Pallas (" a very 

 common resident in Greece, breeding in numbers in the lagunes 

 and desert islets ") is probably the bird referred to, in a previous 

 Number of this Journalf, as a variety of Larus argentatus. 



We are indebted to the courtesy of Herr Ferdinand Heine for 

 an early copy of the first portion of the third part of the list of his 

 extensive ornithological collection, called ' Museum Heineanum %,' 

 It contains an enumeration of the Humming-birds [Trochilidie) 

 in the Heinean collection, numbering 183 species. Notes are 

 likewise given concerning the other known species of each genus, 

 among which we observe a fine new form from Veragua, desig- 

 nated Panterpe insignis, of which we have had the pleasure of 

 inspecting the types in the Berlin Museum. The careful elabo- 



* Die Vogel Grieclienlands. Ein Beitrag zur Fr uua dieses Landes von 

 Dr. Ritter A. Lindermayer in Athen. Passau, 1860, 1 vol. 8vo, 188 pp. 



t ' Ibis,' 1860, p. 355. 



X Museum Heineanum. Verzeichniss der ornithologischen Sararalung 

 des Oberamtmanns Ferdinand Heine, von Dr. Jean Cabanis und Ferdinand 

 Heine, Stud. Phil., iii. Theil, die Schrillvogel enthaltend. Hulberstadt, 

 1860. 



