344 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



orders'^ of the County Councils it will probably be soon 

 extinct. 



58. Hutton on Migratory Birds in New Zealand. 



[Our Migratory Birds. By Capt. F. W. Ilutton, RR.S. Trans. New 

 Zeal. lust. 1900, p. 251.] 



This is an interesting paper which we commend to the 

 notice of all who wish to study the difficult problems of 

 Migration. The only regular summer visitors to New 

 Zealand, for the purpose of breeding there, are the two 

 parasitic Cuckoos Eadynamis taitensis and Chrysococcyx 

 lucidus. But numerous Waders and other birds appear 

 there more or less sporadically, besides a number of accidental 

 visitors from Australia and other adjacent lands. 



59. Madardsz on a new Palcearctic Bird. 



[Ueber einen ueuen palfearktischen Vogel : Acanthoimeuste puella, n. sp. 

 Von Dr. Julius v. Madarasz. Terineszet. Fiizet. xxv.] 



Acanthopneuste jmella is based on several specimens received 

 by the National Hungarian Museum from the vicinity of 

 Yladivostock, Eastern Siberia. It is nearly allied to Phyllo- 

 scopus coronatus of Japan (Cat. B. v. p. 48), but has no 

 light middle stripe on the head, and shews other points of 

 difference. 



60. Mitchell on the Classification of Birds. 



[On the Intestinal Tract of Birds : with Remarks on the Valuation and 

 Nomenclature of Zoological Characters. By P. Chalmers Mitchell, 

 D.Sc. Oxon., F.L.S., F.Z.S. Trans. Linn. Soc. Loud. ser. 2 (Zool.), 

 vol. viii. pt. 7, pp. 173-275 ; 3 plates.] 



Before the appearance of the present paper Dr. Mitchell 

 had, in a communication to the Zoological Society of Loudon, 

 directed attention to the importance of the intestinal tract 

 as a basis of bird-classification. 



The very large series of differences in the size of the various 

 loops and folds of this tract lend themselves to a regular 

 arrangement of birds in correspondence therewith, and, what 

 is more important, permit of a reasonable guess at the more 



