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Recent Ornithological Publications. 



Palcelodus crassipes. 1 



gracilipes. > Tertiary. 



niinutus. ) 



Agnopterus laurillardi. Eocene. 

 Elomis littoralis, I Tertiary. 



" Ardeides.'^ 

 Ardea pei^plexa. Tertiary. 



" Rallidesr 



Fulica newtoni. {Cf. Ibis, 1869, 



p. 482_, note.) 



Gypsornis ciivieri. Eocene. 



Rallus eximius. | tw 



\ Miocene. 

 major. j 



intermedius. Eocene. 



clirj^stii. ] 



beaumonti. 



porzanoides. 



dispar. 



Miocene. 



Elomis (allied to Limosa), Ibidopodia, Pelargopsis, Palcelodus, 

 Agnopterus, and Gypsornis appear to be new genera ; and of them 

 the second seems to be perhaps the most singular form. It 

 only remains for us to say that with the twenty-second livraison 

 the first volume of this remarkable work is concluded, and to 

 wish M. Milne-Edwards all possible success with the remainder. 



It has been our hard fate on more than one occasion to find 

 ourselves compelled to express but a moderate amount of satis- 

 faction at the ornithological papers in the ' Revue et Magasin 

 de Zoologie.' The volume for last year contains only four that 

 may be regarded as original. To the first of these, by M. 

 Graudidier (pp. 3-7), allusion has already been made (Ibis, 

 1868, p. 223) in noticing the series of papers of which it formed 

 the conclusion. The second is a brief statement by the same 

 gentleman (p. 48) identifying Artamia bernieri with A. leucoce- 

 phala. The third is a continuation (pp. 50-53) of M. Mar- 

 chand's Catalogue of the Birds of the Eure-et-Loir ; while the 

 fourth consists of some " Observations ornithologiques ^' by 

 Colonel Tytler (pp. 193-199). These were contained in a letter 

 bearing date 7th May 1863 (!) addressed to M. Jules Verrcaux, 

 and relate to the Andaman Islands. Had they appeared at the 

 time we should have nothing to say against them. As it is, they 

 are now about as useful as an almanack of the same year ; for 

 ornithological observations, unlike wine, do not generally im- 

 prove by keeping five years ; and we think it hardly fair upon 

 Col. Tytler thus to resuscitate extracts from a letter of that age, 

 even if originally intended for publication. Still less fair to 

 Mr. Beavau is the omission of all mention of his paper on " The 



