Recently published Ornithological Works. 48 i 



onymy of some of the Penguins ; but here space prevents us 

 from following him for the present. 



In concluding these remarks, we cannot help thinking that 

 it is well for the indigenous fauna of this island that Transits 

 of Venus are of rare occurrence; for such facts as '^tlie 

 bagging of 2000 Querquedulce eatoni within a radius of eight 

 miles/^ and '' the conversion of a whole community of Pen- 

 guins into '^hare soup/ for the officers of one of Her Majesty^s 

 vessels/^ read ominously for the welfare of the birds of Ker- 

 guelen Island. 



57. Lawrence on a netv Pitangus. 



[Descriptiou of a new Species of Bird of the Genus Pitangus. By G. 

 N. Lawrence. Ann. Lye. N. Y. xi. pp. 288-290, Nov. ISTG.] 



The new species here described is called P. gahbii, after its 

 discoverer, the well-known explorer of the Talamanca district 

 of Costa Rica. This bird comes, however, from San Domingo, 

 where Prof. Gabb spent the past winter. It is smaller than 

 either P. caiidifasciatus of Jamaica, or P. taylori of Porto Rico, 

 its nearest allies, and differs in other points from those species. 

 We are glad to note that Prof. Grabb purposes to spend another 

 winter in San Domingo, and trust he will not fail to turn his 

 attention to its avifauna, our knowledge of Avhich, as the dis- 

 covery of the present species shows, is by no means complete. 



58. 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. Part ix. 

 London : 1877, Triibner and Co.] 



In the present number Mr. Rowley gives us his usual varied 

 menu. The first article treats of certain members of the genus 

 Ptilopus, such as are especially related to the curious P. inso- 

 litus, Schl., which Drs. Cabanis and Reichenow have recently 

 elevated to a genus, (Edirhinus. Sclater^s notes on it in the 

 ' Proceedings^ of the Zoological Society, 1877, are reprinted, 

 as well as Schlegel's original remarks. Dr. Meyer, too, com- 

 municates observations on the same subject. To these are 

 added extracts from W. MarshalPs work relating to the bony 



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