394 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



useful and engaging bird should be persecuted we cannot 

 understand ; yet in some districts^ we are told^ a price is set on 

 its head, and in Baden, it is stated, 632 of these unfortunate 

 birds were slain in one year. 



78. Godnian and Salvin's ' Bioloyia Centrali- Americana.' 



[Biologia Centrali-Americana: or, Contributions to the Knowledge of 

 the Fauna and Flora of Mexico and Central America. Edited by F. 

 DuCane Godman and Osbert Salvia. (Zoology.) Parts OXX.-CXXII, 

 4to. London: 1895. Published for the Editors by II. H. Porter, 18 

 Princes Street, Cavendish Square, W.] 



Since we last mentioned the progress of this great work 

 (above, p. 281) three further portions of the section " Aves" 

 have been issued. In these the authors commence and 

 finish the Pici and begin the Coccyges. Melanerpes wagleri 

 is proposed as a new name for what Hargitt has called 

 M. tricolor. The two supposed local forms of M. formi- 

 civorus (called by Hargitt M. formicivorus and M. melano- 

 pogon) are shown to be inseparable. 



Figures are given of Chloronerpes callopterus, C. simplex, 

 C. godmani, C. auricularis, and Melanerpes chrysauchen. 



79. Gurney on the Birds of Prey of the Norwich Museum. 



[Catalogue of the Birds of Prey {Accijntres and Striges), with the 

 Number of Specimens in Norwich Museum. By J. H. Gurney, F.Z.S. 

 Pp. 56. 8vo. London, 1894. R. H. Porter.] 



The celebrated Gurney Collection of Birds of Prey having 

 been now transferred to the new Museum in Norwich Castle, 

 there seems a convenient opportunity for the publication 

 of a catalogue of its contents. This has accordingly been 

 done by the son of the founder and maker of the collection, 

 who has himself devoted much time and attention to the 

 care and completion of the great work of his father. 



The catalogue contains the names of the species of birds 

 of prey, both diurnal and nocturnal, of which specimens are 

 in the collection, with the number of specimens of each 

 species and general indications as to its locality. At some 

 future time, we venture to suggest, when the whole collection 



