410 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



This is, indeed, all the more probable when we consider 

 that the eastern Black-eared Chat is the form found 

 throughout the greater part of Southern Europe, as well as 

 in Asia Minor and North-east Africa ; while the western 

 form, so far as I have been able to ascertain, with the 

 exception perhaps of an occasional straggler, occurs only 

 in North-west Africa, South Spain, Sicily, and one or two 

 other West-Mediterranean coast-districts. 



Hemprich and Ehrenberg's descriptions of S. aurita var. 

 libyca and S. amphileuca (Symb. Phys. 18.29, and Symb. 

 Aves, 1833) are also rather vague, but there can be no doubt 

 that both refer to the eastern Black-eared Chat and must 

 therefore be regarded as synonyms of S. albicol/js (Vieill.) 

 or S. aurita Temra. 



Dr. Finsch, in his Catalogue of Birds in the Ley den 

 Museum (p. 151), is unable to separate S. aurita and 

 S. amphileuca, specimens in his collection from South France 

 and Bogosland being identical. This form of the species, 

 in fact, as already mentioned, has a wide range from cast to 

 west, and the term eastern as applied to it, being misleading, 

 might perhaps with advantage be changed for some other 

 more appropriate designation. 



In conclusion, I maintain that both Vieillot's and Tem- 

 minck's descriptions refer to the Eastern Black-eared Chat, 

 and that Hemprich and Ehrenberg's names are synonyms ; 

 so that the name Sa.iicola caterince, failing proof to the con- 

 trary, should stand for the western Black-eared Chat. 



XXXV. — Notices of recent Ornithological Publications. 



[Continued from p. 265.] 



67. ( Annals of Scottish Natural History." 



[The Annals of Scottish Natural History. No. 45, January 1903, 

 and No. 40, April 1903.] 



Mr. Harvie-Brown begins the January number with a 

 sympathetic tc In Memoriam " of his — and our — esteemed 

 friend, the late T. E. Buckley ; and this is followed by his 



