460 Recently puhlisJied Ornithological Works. 



time a tliorougl'ly Irish species. Both these papers are 

 illustrated. Mr. Barrett-Hamilton announces that some 

 birds' bones from the Ballynamintra and Shandon caves have 

 been identified as those of the Black Grouse {Tetrao tetrix) 

 and the Ptarmigan {Lagopus mutus) ; and this is especially 

 interesting, inasmuch as these species are not known to 

 have been found in Ireland within liistoric times. More- 

 over, attempts to introduce these birds have failed, as stated 

 by the same author in a paper in the February number. 

 Mr. E. J. Ussher points out that a supposed Nightingale 

 shot near the Old Head of Kinsale in September 1876, and 

 for more than twenty years exhibited as such in the Museum 

 of Queen's College, Cork, is really an example of the 

 Bufous Warbler [Aedon galactodes) ; and this occurrence 

 coincides with that of the bird obtained at Slapton, South 

 Devon, on the 12th of October of the same year, 1876. In 

 the March and April numbers there are no ornithological 

 articles. 



77. Jherhig on the Birds of S. Paulo, Brazil. 



[As Aves do Estado de S. Paulo. Per H. von Jliering. Rev. Mus. 

 Paul. iii. p. 113 (1808).] 



The promised memoir on the birds of the Province of 

 Sao Paulo in Southern Brazil, which was mentioned by 

 Dr. H. V. Jliering in his letter to us {' Ibis,' 1898, p. 456), 

 has been published in the third volume of the ' Revista 

 do Museu Paulista' — a periodical lately established and 

 conducted by the same energetic naturalist. It makes an 

 important addition to our knowledge of the South Brazilian 

 Ornis. 



After some preliminary remarks on previous authorities 

 on the birds of S. Paulo, and the technical terms proposed 

 to be employed in describing them, the author gives us 

 his synopsis of the species as yet known to occur within 

 the limits of the State — 590 in all, which (nearly according 

 to the B.M. Catalogue) he arranges in the following 

 Orders : — 



