384 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



mann (Abh. Nat. Ver. z. Bremen^ 1876, p. 84) as Carpophaga 

 pcecilorrhoa is placed in the genus Gymnophaps, and a figure 

 (plate xiii.) of it given, 



49. Pelzeln's Report on the Progress of Ornithology in 1875. 



[Bericlit liber die Leistungen in der Natiirgeschichte der Vogel wah- 

 rend des Jahres 187o. (Wiegm. Arch, xsxii. pp. 144-208.)] 



This report upon the ornithological work of the year 1875, 

 furnished by Herr von Pelzeln to Wiegmann^s ' Archiv/ 

 appears, like its predecessors, to be very complete, especially 

 as regards the list of publications bearing upon the general 

 subject. We also notice that several past omissions are now 

 inserted ; so that the report is perhaps enlarged somewhat 

 beyond the dimensions due to the year to which it specially 

 relates. There are a few points in the classification of the 

 special portion which seem to us now to require some modi- 

 fication. The Hlrundinidce and the Trochilidce cannot, we 

 think, properly be allowed to continue in the positions here 

 assigned to them. Though the Upupida have often been 

 classed with the Passeres, and even placed near the Larks by 

 Sundevall, their retention in that Order cannot be seriously 

 maintained ; still less the junction of the Bucerotida with the 

 Passeres Conirostres. Is it not time, too, to remove the Stru- 

 thiones from the midst of the Carinatse ? In a work 

 like the present it would be unwise to adopt every new 

 point in classification as it appears to be made out ; at the same 

 time we venture to suggest that some modification is oc- 

 casionally necessary to avoid the prolonged retention of an 

 obsolete system. 



50. Baird's ' Ornithology of Utah.' 



[Exploration across the great Basin of Utah. Appendix K, pp. 373- 

 381. Ornithology. A List of Birds. By Prof. Spencer F. Baird. 4to. 

 Washington : 1876.] 



This is a list of the birds obtained during an exploration of 

 the great basin of Utah, as long ago as 1859, by the engineer- 

 ing department of the United-States army, in charge of Cap- 

 tain J. H. Simpson. The whole collection consisted of 258 

 specimens, comprising 114 species. These have been classi- 



