1917-] Recently published Ornithological Works. 445 



Sarepta in southern Russia), found througliout western 

 Siberia, southern Russia, the Balkan Peninsula, and the 

 valley of the Danube to Austria. 



In the third note Dr. Hartert points out that, although 

 the authors of the A. O. U. Check-list have acted correctly 

 in using the generic name Aethia instead of Simorhjpichus 

 for the Anklets, their reasons for so doing were not justified. 

 The name Aethia is to be found in a well-known, thougii 

 somewhat scarce work, published by Merrem in 1788 under 

 the title " Versuch eines Grundnisses zur Allgemeinen 

 Geschiclite und natiirlicben Eintheilung der Vogei/" and 

 tlie quotation for the generic name should be : Aethia 

 Merrenij Vers. Grundr. Allg. Gesch. u. nat. Eintheil. Vog. i. 

 -Tentamen Syst. Nat. Av. pp. 7, 13/20 (1788: monotype 

 A. cristatella Pall.). 



Cohimba gymnophthahna ^ the name and distribution of 

 which were discussed in a previous communication, is now 

 found to occur along the arid northern coast of Venezuela 

 and Colombia as well as in the adjacent islands Curacao 

 and Aruba; and, finally, the name of the central European 

 Cormorant, previously discussed on pp. 293-5 of the same 

 volume [vide supra, p. 101), must be Phalacrocorax sub- 

 cormoranus Brehm (Ornis, i. 1824, p. 42 : Holland). 



Mathews on the Birds of Australia. 



[The Birds of Australia. By Gregory M. Mathews. Vol. vi. pt. 3, 

 pp. 217-290, pis. 291-299. London (Witherbj), April 1917. 4to.] 



The author's arrangement of the Psittaciformes, or Parrot 

 alliance, has already been discussed in our last notice (vide 

 supra, p. 253); but it should be noted that constant reference 

 is made in this further instalment to the divisions that 

 he has adopted, and to the fact that he finds osteological 

 characters here comparatively unimportant. 



Part iii. starts with the conclusion of the genus Licmetis, 

 which is admitted to be of very doubtful validity ; in fact, 

 Ducorpsius sanguineus sanguineus and D. s. distinctus might 

 be, or even have been, confounded with Licmetis tenuirostris 

 derbyi and L. t. pastinator respectively. 



