322 Recently published Ornitholoyical Works. 



be captious when we observe his evident anxiety for their 

 welfare^ and their equally evident happiness under the cir- 

 cumstances. He has, moreover, been thus enabled to make 

 notes upon tlie plumage of males and females, and upon the 

 moult ; Avhile his accounts of the rearing of Gold-crested 

 Wrens from the nest, and of the Cardinal Grosbeak breeding 

 in a garden, are especially worthy of notice, as is the final 

 chapter on Storks and Cranes. 



Mr. Astley, however, by no means confines himself to his 

 aviaries ; he gives us accounts of his observations upon the 

 Hoopoe, and upon two species of Rock-Thrush met with 

 during his travels, and furnishes us in addition with a large 

 number of illustrations, chiefly or entirely of his own drawing, 

 of which those of the Hoopoe, the Ring-Ousel, the Oyster- 

 catcher, and the Great Black-backed Gull are perhaps the 

 most successful. 



We are somewhat surprised, however, to notice that he 

 considers Morris an ''eminent ornithologist'^ worthy to be 

 coupled with Gould ; while he is decidedly mistaken in 

 attributing Dippers invariably to mountain torrents, Lories 

 to New Zealand, and, at the present day, Bearded Tits to the 

 fens of Cambridgeshire. 



39. Bungs on a new Rice-Gracklc. 



[Description of a new Rice-Grackle. By Outrani Bangs. Pioc. New 

 England Zool. Club, ii. p. 11, 1900.] 



The Colombian form of Cassidix is separated as Cassidix 

 oryzivora violea, 



40. Bangs on Birds from Panama. 



[List of Birds collected by W. W. Brown, Jr., at Lonia del Leon, 

 Panama. By Outram Bangs. Proc. New England Zool. Club, ii. p. 18, 

 1900.] 



Mr. Bangs records the names of the species represented in 

 a collection of 752 skins formed at Lion- Hill Station on the 

 Panama Railway by Mr. W. W. Brown, Jr. Among these 

 three are described as new — Mionectes oleagineus parvus, 

 Myrmelastes celerus, and Saltator lacertosus. 



