378 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



Mr. Gould^s annual number of the ' Birds of Asia ' gives 

 us portraits of the following species : — 



Rhodopechys sanguinea. Actenoides hombroni. 



Erytlirospiza obsoleta. lindsayi. 



incarnata. concretus. 



Pitta baudii. Sturnus unicolor. 



gurueyi. humii. 



steerii. Sutbora muiiipurensis. 



ussheri. 



The red-stained Mountain-Finches of the genus Erythro- 

 spiza and its allied forms are of great interest^ but have been 

 very unnecessarily cut up into too many subdivisions. Ery- 

 throspiza incarnata of Severtzolf ought, it appears, to bear 

 the specific name mongolica of Swinhoe. Sturnus humii of 

 Mr. Gould and of Mr. Brooiis (Ibis, 1876, p. 500) appears 

 to be the species just named S. ambiguus by the energetic 

 ornithologist after whom Messrs. Brooks and Gould have in- 

 dependently proposed to call it^. We must also remark 

 that Mr. Gould's reasons for including S. unicolor in the 

 ' Birds of Asia ' are rather inconsequent. 



41. Rowley's ' Ornithological Miscellany .' 



[Ornithological Miscellany. Edited by George Dawson Rowley, M.A., 

 F.L.S., F.Z.S., Member of the British Ornithologists' Union. Parts vii. 

 and viii. London : 1877, Triibner and Co.] 



Mr. Rowley continues to publish fresh numbers of his 

 favourite periodical. Part vii. gives us excellent figures of 

 Oriolus formosus of the Sangi Islands (we really cannot use 

 the unnecessary generic term which Mr. Rowley gives to this 

 true Oriole) , of the nest and eggs of White's Thrush, from ex- 

 amples obtained by Mr. Swinhoe near Ningpo, China, and of 

 Pitta rosenbergi of the Schouten Islands. Mr. Rowley also 

 gives us, with the assistance of Dr. Meyer, an excellent article 

 on the genus Loriculus, with illustrations of four of these 

 beautiful little Parrots — L. catamene, L. regulus, L. exilis, 

 and L. stigmatus. 



In part viii. we have a continuation of the useful transla- 

 tion of Prejevalsky^s essay upon the birds of Mongolia and 



* 'Stray Feathers,' iv. p. 512. 



