208 Recent Ornithological Publications. 



latter conimou to the Indian, Australian, and ^Ethiopian regions. 

 The only species described by Dr. v. Schrenck as new to science 

 is a small Sylvian — Salicaria [Calamodyta) maackii — nearly allied 

 to Calamodyta phragmitis, C. cariceti, and C. aquatica, of which 

 a figure is also given. We must also not fail to call attention to 

 some of the notices of rarer Anatida in this volume. The true 

 breeding-quarters of the Mandarin Duck {Aix galericulata) — a 

 " very common bird" on the Amoor — were, we believe, previously 

 quite unknown. And, in conclusion, we must again remind our 

 readers of the great value of the whole work, even though excep- 

 tion be taken to some of its details. We may, indeed, say that 

 Dr. v. Schrenck's volume is absolutely essential to any one who 

 wishes to attain a complete knowledge of the birds of Europe, or 

 even of England, as giving details concerning the range of the 

 greater part of our native species, and a fauna of a country 

 whence many of our rarer stragglers have been derived. 



4. American Publications. 



The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia have issued 

 their ' Proceedings ' up to the close of 1860. At p. 374 will be 

 found a paper of much interest to those of our friends who have 

 been working at the ornithology of the West Indies, being a 

 Catalogue of Birds from the island of St. Thomas, collected and 

 presented to the Academy by Mr. Robert Swift, with notes by 

 Mr. Cassin. Twenty-seven species are enumerated, Tijrannula 

 martinica is evidently the same bird as is described in Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. 1860, p. 314, as Elainia riisii*. Before adopting for 

 it the Linnean name employed by Mr. Cassin, we should like to 

 see specimens from Martinique. Dendrceca petechia is rightly 

 distinguished from D. cestiva of the continent t. The Humming- 

 bird (No. 12) should be Eulampis chlorolcemus. The Eupsgcho?-- 

 tyx, about which there has been some discussion in this Journal 

 (antea, p. 114), is considered to be E. sonninii — "exactly the 

 species figured by Mr. Gould under the name, and identical with 



* See also ' Ibis,' 1860, p. 30/. 



t Compare Dr. Cabanis's remarks on this section of the DendrceccE in 

 ' Jovn-n. f. Orn.' 1860, p. 327. His D. rujiceps, of which we have exa- 

 mined many specimens, is the same as Mr. Cassin's D. vieilloti, Proc. 

 Acad. Philad. 1860, p. 192. 



