326 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



whicli specimens have lately been received at Tring. 

 Mr. Eothschild proposed to eliange the name of Eos rubra 

 to Eos bornea, to which we conld not agree, as the species is 

 not fonnd in Borneo. Excellent figures are given of it 

 (plate xviii.) and of the remarkable Cyclojjsitlacus macil- 

 ivraithi of New Guinea. 



55. Rothschild on a new Cassowary. 



[Casuarms lor ice, si^. nov. By the Hon. Walter Rothschild. Novitates 

 Zool. V. p. 513.] 



A Cassowary from the hills of British New Guinea is 

 characterized as C. loi'ias. It is allied to C. picticollis, but 

 has a red neck. 



56. Salvadori and Festa on new Birds from Ecuador. 



[Viaggio del Dott. E. Festa nella Repubblica dell' Ecuador e regioni 

 vicine. — XIII. T. Salvadori edE. Festa. Descritione di tre nuovi Specie 

 di Uccelli. Boll. Mus. Zool. ed Anat. Comp. R. Univ. Torino, xiii. 

 No. 330.] 



Three new species, based on specimens obtained by Signor 

 Festa during his recent journeys in Ecuador, are characterized 

 as Pachyrhamphus xanthogenys, Dendrocincla brunnea, and 

 GraUaria periophthalmica. 



57. Seebohm's 'Monograph of the Thrushes.' 



[A Monograph of the Turdid;Te, or Family of Thrushes. By the late 

 Henry Seehohm. Edited and completed (after the Author's death) by 

 R. Bowdler Sharpe, LL.D., F.L.S., &c. Part V. Imperial 4to. 

 London : Henry Sotheraii & Co., 1898.] 



The Monograph of the Thrushes makes excellent progress. 

 We agree with the Editor in his views that Tardus phaeo- 

 pygoides and T. spodiolcemus are not properly separable from 

 T. phaeopygus. Owing to the numbers of the plates not 

 being stated in the letterpress, there is sometimes a difficulty 

 in finding the plate referred to, and it is not quite clear to 

 us why the number of the plate should not be given in the 

 letterpress in every case. 



The following species are figured in this part : — Tvrdus 



