242 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



for February last. Fanning^s group consists of four coral- 

 islands^ lying a little north of the equator, between 157° and 

 162° W. long. One of them, Washington Island, is remark 

 able as possessing a peculiar species of Parrot {Coriphilus 

 Icuhli*) and another land-bird, probably a Flycatcher, speci- 

 mens of which were obtained by Dr. Streets, but have disap- 

 peared in the ^' general collection of the Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution." We trust they may be rediscovered, as also those 

 of an allied species from " Christmas Island," which have, 

 for the present, met with a similar fate. There is likewise a 

 Duck {Chaulelasmus couesi), allied to our well-known Gad- 

 wall, peculiar to Washington Island ; and this and the other 

 islands are resorted to by several species of oceanic birds for 

 breeding-purposes. 



21 . Dr. Ogden on a supposed new Paradise-bird. 

 [Remarks on Ptilorliis wilsonii, Ogden. By J. A. Ogden, M.D. Proc. 



Acad. Nat. Sc. Phil. 1876, p. 182.] 



In the ' Proceedings ' of the Academy of Sciences of Phila- 

 delphia for 1875 (p. 451) Dr. Ogden described and figured a 

 new Rifle-bird as Ptilorhis ivilsonii, from a mounted speci- 

 men in the Academy^s collection. Incited to further inquiries 

 by Mr. D. G. Elliot, Dr. Ogden has now discovered that the 

 legs and feet of the specimen are " those of another bird," and 

 it remains more than questionable whether this supposed 

 species is distinct from P. magnifica. 



22. Prejevalsky's Mongolia and Northern Thibet. 



[Mongolia, the Tangut Country, and the Solitudes of Northern Tibet, 

 being a Narrative of Three Years' Travel in Eastern High Asia, by Lieut.- 

 Ool. N. Prejevalsky, Translated by E. Delmar Morgan, F.R.G.S. ; with 

 Introduction and Notes by Col. Henry Yule, C.B. Two volumes. Lon- 

 don, 1876 : Sampson Low & Co.] 



Though not a strictly scientific work, no naturalist should 

 omit to read Col. Prejevalsky's narrative, containing, as it 

 does, numerous allusions to birds and other animals through- 

 out its interesting pages. Col. Prejevalsky started from 

 Pekin, and, travelling south-west, crossed the Hoang-ho at 

 * Cf. Sclater, P. Z. S. 1876, p. 421. 



