Recently published Ornithological Works . 383 



the thoroughly substantial character of the evidence on which 

 it is based. 



" The constant and energetic exploration of the great North 

 and North-west, of the vast trans -Mississippian region, and 

 of our subtropical borders, during the last two decades, by- 

 scores of indefatigable collectors and observers, has certainly 

 not been in vain, as witness the hundreds and often thousands 

 of specimens of single species, representing the gradually 

 varying phases presented at hundreds of localities, that have 

 passed through the hands of our specialists/' 



47. Pelzeln on Birds from Ecuador. 



[Ueber eiue weitere Sendung von Vogeln aus Ecuador. (Verb, zool.- 

 bot. Gesellscb. in Wieu, 1876, p. 765.)] 



This paper contains a short list of birds, in continua- 

 tion of a previous memoir on the same subject {op. cit. 

 1874, p. 171). Several of the species mentioned do not 

 appear to have been recorded before from Ecuador. The 

 Humming-birds seem to have come in for a large share of 

 the collectors' attention ; and in the list of them we notice 

 the name of the rare Eutoxeres condaminii, of which very 

 few specimens have as yet reached Europe. One species is 

 named with doubt Steganura underwoodi; should not this 

 rather be called /S. melananthera, or perhaps Mr. Gould's 

 lately described S. solstitialis ? The female of the latter is 

 distinguishable by its rufous thighs. The exact locality in 

 the Republic where these specimens were obtained is not 

 stated. 



48. Pelzeln on Additions to the Imperial Museum at Vienna. 



[Ueber sine von Herrn Dr. Richard Ritter von Drasche dem k.k. zoo- 

 logischen Ilofcabinete zum Gescbenk gemachte Sendung von Viigelbal- 

 gen, (Verb, zool.-bot. Gesellscb. in Wien, 1876, p. 717.)] 



Unfortunately the exact origin of the ninety-seven speci- 

 mens treated of in this paper was not recorded; but the 

 greater part of them, it is stated, came from Celebes, the re- 

 mainder from the JMoluccas and Papuan Islands. One 

 species {Rectes draschii), allied to R. dichrous, is described as 

 new ; and the Pigeon recently characterized by Herr Brugge- 



