162 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



82. Stone on the Old- World Rallinse. 



[A Review of the Old-World Rallinse. By Witmer Stone. Proc. Ac. 

 Nat. Sci. Philad. 1804, p. 130.] 



Had Mr. Stone been aware of the approaching issue of the 

 twenty-tliird volume of the British Museum Catalogue of 

 Birdsj we can hardly suppose that he wonld have published 

 the present paper, which is a cursory review of the established 

 generic and specific names of the Old- World Rallidffi, without 

 going into their characters. In some questions of nomen- 

 clature where his views diverge from those of Dr. Sharpe, 

 Mr. Stone is entitled to attention, but he appears to be 

 personally unacquainted with many of the species. 



33. Tail on the Birds of Portugal. 



[Avesde Portugal. Por W. C. Tait. Aun. Scienc. Naturaes, Porto, i. 

 (1894), p. 21.] 



Mr. W. C. Tait commences a new memoir on the birds of 

 Portugal, a country of special interest to British ornitho- 

 logists, in a recent number of the ' Annals of Natural Sciences 

 of Oporto,' with some excellent introductory remarks on 

 previous authorities and on the leading features of the avi- 

 fauna. 



34. Tschusi zu Schmidhoffen on Colymbus adamsi in 

 Austria. 



[Erstes Exemplar dea ostlichen Eistauchers {Colymbus glacial is adamsi, 

 Gray) aus Oesterreich-Ungarn. Von Vict. Ritter v. Tscliusi zu Schmid- 

 hoffen. Ornith. Jahrb. v. 1894, p. 145.] 



The author records the existence in the Museum of Linz, 

 Austria, of a young example of Colymbus adamsi, procured 

 in 1840 on the Attersee in Upper Austria, and gives par- 

 ticulars about it. 



35. Verrill on the Birds of Dominica. 



[Notes on the Fauna of the Island of Dominica, British West Indies, 

 with Lists of the Species obtained and observed by G. E. and A. H. 

 Verrill. Trans. Conn. Acad. viii. p. 315 (1892).] 



Mr. G. E. Verrill, with his brother Mr. A. H. Verrill, 

 visited Dominica in the spring of 1890, and gives an account 



