122 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



Straits. Of these 136 are enumerated, amongst which are 

 described, as new, Podargus gouldi from the Gulf of Carpen- 

 taria, Pachycephala robusta from Cape York, Colluricincla 

 superciliosa from Cape Grenville, Gerygone simplex from the 

 Gulf of Carpentaria, Sericornis brunneopygius from Cape 

 York, Zosterops ramsayi from Palm Island, Z. flavogularis 

 from Cape Grenville and the adjacent islands, Megapodius 

 assimilis from Dungeness and Bet Islands, Sterna nigrifrons 

 from Warrior Reef, and Sternula inconspicua from Cape York. 



6. Rowley's ' Ornithological Miscellany.' 



[Ornitliological Miscellany. Edited by George DaAvson Rowley, M.A., 

 r.L.S., r.Z.S., Member of the British Ornithologists' Union. 4to. Lon- 

 don : Triibner & Co. Part III. January 1876 ; Part IV. May 1876 ; Part 

 V. October 1876.] 



Of this most appropriately named work, which has already 

 been noticed in 'The Ibis' (1875, pp. 261, 509), three parts 

 have been issued during the past year, graced with many 

 excellent plates of ornithic rarities, Messrs. Finsch, Salvin, 

 Sharpe, and A. Newton have been invited to contribute to 

 its pages ; and all ornithologists must be grateful to Mr. Row- 

 ley for the liberality with which he supplies illustrations to 

 the various memoirs. Those of the Fijian novelties [Tricho- 

 glossus aureocinctus, Myiagra caruleo-capilla, &c.) recently 

 discovered by Mr. E. L. Layard are specially acceptable; and 

 we trust Mr. Rowley will not fail to continue them. 



7. Blanford's ' Zoology of Eastern Persia.' 



[Eastern Persia, an account of the Journeys of the Persian Boundary 

 Commission 1870-71-72. Vol. II. The Zoology and Geology, by W. T. 

 Blanford, A.R.S.M., F.R.S. Svo. Loudon: 1876. (Macmillan"& Co.)] 



All ornithologists will, we are sure, accord a glad welcome 

 to Mr. Blanford^s volume on the zoology and geology of Persia, 

 which is quite worthy of the high reputation of the author, 

 and fills up what has been long an important void in our 

 science. Looking to the geographical position of Persia, 

 between the carefully studied lauds of Europe on the one side 

 and British India on the other, it will be at once obvious that 

 a careful account of its zoology M'ould throw light upon many 



