518 Recent Ornithological Publications. 



are already acquainted {cf. supra, pp. 256-261)*; while the 

 number is concluded by extracts from the " Proces-verbaux " of 

 the Society for 1867^ 1868, and part of 1869, showing that our 

 Swiss brethren are fully alive to all that is going on in the orni- 

 thological world, 



8. Italian. 

 We are indebted to the kindness of our good fellow-labourer 

 Dr. Salvadori for copies of five papers contributed by him to 

 Italian journals. The first, from the 'Atti^ of the Italian Society 

 of Natural Sciences, is on the occurrence of stray birds in Italy : 

 all those noticed are Accipitres, and the most noteworthy is 

 Buteo ferox, killed near Genoa in April 1869. The second, 

 communicated to the same publication, contains the description 

 of a bird on which the author subsequently addressed us a letter 

 {supra, p. 296), thereby setting an excellent example to all na- 

 turalists. The third is from the 'Atti' of the Royal Academy of 

 Turin, and describes four new species ; — two Saxicolce, S. albo- 

 marginata from the Tunisian Sahara, and S. brehmi from Abys- 

 sinia and, perhaps. Nubia ; Brachypus urostictus from the Phil- 

 ippine Islands, and a form from the same locality belonging to 

 the family Timaliidce, which, under the name of Homochlannjs 

 luscinia, is described as the type of a new genus, having much 

 affinity to Trochaloptermn, but with a straight bill and longer 

 tarsi. The fourth paper is an Italian version of that which he 

 and Dr. Giglioli (who has also kindly sent us a copy) have already 

 contributed to our pages {supr-a, pp. 185-187) ; while the fifth 

 is a review of the Marchese Antinori's 'Catalogo' {cf. Ibis, 1864, 

 pp. 400, 401), and contains remarks on about seventy species 

 therein included, besides two others which that author appears 

 to have overlooked. These remarks have been partly prompted 

 by the notes appended by Dr. R. Hartmann to his translation of 

 that catalogue, published by our esteemed contemporary the 

 'Journal fiir Orthoiogie;^ and Dr. Salvadori, in composing his 



* We r.re just able to add, at the moment of going to press, that, as we 

 learn frorra Mr. J. H. Gurney, Junr., the specimen of Alca impennis at 

 Strasburg was uninjured by the recent bombardment of that town, and 

 that the Museum there generally escaped v^ithout much injury — a piece of 

 news we are sure that all naturalists will be glad to know. 



