238 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



has recently occurred ou the west coast of France_, and of 

 which he vindicates the claims to be recognized as a valid 

 species'^. Here are two new subjects for Mr, Dresser to 

 consider. 



Next we have (p. 36) a joint paper by Mr. Sharpe and M. 

 Bouvier (the Secretary of the new Society) on a collection of 

 birds made by M. Petit in Congo, containing representatives 

 of abovit 100 species, and amongst them anew Psalidoprocne, 

 which is described and figured as P.petiti. M. Louis Bureau 

 follows with a good essay upon the vexed question of the dif- 

 ferent plumages of Aquila pennata, of which he has had the 

 good fortune to obtain five nests on the Lower Loire. In 

 parts ii. and iii. MM. A. Besnard and A. Lacroix, each, con- 

 tribute notes on some of the rarer birds of France, such as 

 Turdus varius of Pallas, Falco concolor, and a Stonechat re- 

 ferred by the latter, somewhat doubtfully, to Saxicola squalida 

 of Eversmann. But the most important ornithological paper 

 in the number is the first portion of a " Revue critique de la 

 Faune Ornithologique de la Siberie Orientale," by M. Tac- 

 zanowski of Warsaw. This is mainly based upon the large 

 collections made l)y Dr. Dybowski, who, as is well known to 

 ornithologists, has been actively engaged in collecting birds 

 in Eastern Siberia during the past ten years, and embraces a 

 revised resume of the memoirs upon his investigations akeady 

 published in the ' Journal fiir Ornithologie." 



15, D'Hamonville's Catalogue of the Birds of Eui'ope. 



[Catalogue des Oiseaux d'Europe ou enumeration des especes et races 

 d'oiseaux dout la presence, soit habituelle, soit fortuite, a ete duinent con- 

 statee dans les limites geograpliiques de I'Europe, par J. 0. L. T. D'Ha- 

 monville. 8vo, pp. 74. Paris, Bailliere ; London, Quaritch : 1876.] 



This contains the names of the birds of Europe in Latin 

 and French, according to the nomenclature of Degland and 

 Gerbe, with a slight indication of their distribution, A few 

 footnotes on doubtful species and rare occurrences are added. 

 M. D'Hamonville means well^ but is hardly " up to the mark/^ 

 we fear. 



* See Mons. Olphe-Galliard's letter on this bird, Ibis, 1875, p. 267. 



