688 Recently published Or)ut1ioloyical IVorks. 



descent are all full of interest. We may not perhaps agree iu 

 every particular with the author's views, but we have little 

 fault to find with his statements, and his quotations are 

 generally, although not always, well selected. But we are 

 sorry that he should have been misled by the "poet Cowper" 

 (and some recent writers) into believing the ancient myth 

 about the mode of breeding of the Ostrich (Strnl/iio). 

 It is now perfectly well established that the Ostrich is 

 monogamous, and that both cock and hen take part in 

 the duties of incubation (see Ibis, 1899, p. 481). The 

 little volume appears to have been very carefully ""read," 

 and the misprints are few, although we may remark that our 

 great authority on the Cuckoo is ''Ret//' not " Reh" (see 

 p. 163) . But, on the whole, we have seldom met with a book 

 so free from defects of this kind, and are pleased to be able 

 to tell Mr. Pycraft that we close it with such a " feeling of 

 satisfaction •" as he hoped would follow its perusal. In our 

 opinion it is one of the most instructive manuals on bird-life 

 that has yet appeared. 



127. Richmond on a new Dendroruis. 



[Description of a new Bird of the Genus Dendroruis. B3' Charles W. 

 Richmond. Proc. U.S. Nat. Miis. xxii. p. 317.] 



Dendrornis striatiyidaris is based on a single specimen 

 obtained at Alta Mira, Mexico, in 1894, by Mr. F. B. Arm- 

 strong. It is generally similar to D. jlavigaster. The specimen 



is in the U.S. National Museum. 



128. Richmond on new Birds from Siatn. 



[Descriptions of Three new Birds from Lower Siam. By Charles W. 

 Richmond. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 319.] 



The collection made by Dr. W. L. Abbott in the province 

 of Trong, Lower Siam, embraces some 1300 skins, including 

 representatives of many species not yet recorded from that 

 district. Mr. Kichmond characterizes the followino- as 

 new: — jiEthopyga anomala, Criniger sordidus, and Turdin- 

 ulus granti. 



