164 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



from that bird and also from M. formicivora, as it is black 

 instead of brown in general colour. 



144. Crateropus buxtoni. 

 Crateropus buxtoni, Sharpe, Ibis^ 1891, p. 445. 

 No. 167. S- Ngoboto, Jan. 11, 1890.— Irides bright yel- 

 low; legs olive. 

 No. 207. c?- Turquel, Siik district, Jan. 27, 1890.— Irides 

 bright yellow; legs olive-brown. Plentiful in small 

 flocks. 

 The typical specimen of this species I took to Berlin, and 

 carefully compared, in company with Dr. Reichenow, with 

 specimens of C. plebeius of Riippell. It differs from that 

 species in the dusky centres to the dorsal plumage and also 

 in its whitish throat, the feathers of the lower throat having 

 distinct mesial tips of white. 



145. Crateropus hypoleucus. 



Crateropus hypoleucus, Cab. ; Reichen. J. f. O. 1887, p. 75 

 (Usegua ; Masai Steppes). 

 No. 73. ? . Makarungu, Feb. 10, 1889. 



(To be continued.) 



XII. — Notices of recent Ornithological Publications. 

 1. Allen on Maximilian's Types. 



[Further Notes on Maximilian Types of South-American Bii-ds. By 

 J. A. Allen. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. iii. p. 199.] 



Mr. Allen gives us further useful notes on Prince Max. of 

 Neu-Wied's bird-types now in the American Museum of 

 Natural History. He proposes a new generic name, Rhopo- 

 cichla, for Myiothera ardesiaca, Wied, but this term has been 

 already employed by Oates (Faun. Brit. Ind. Birds, i. p. 159). 

 Mr. Allen has discovered the mislaid types of Anthus poeci- 

 lopterus, Wied, and moreover agrees that the so-called. 

 Anthus is (as has long ago been pointed out*) not even an 

 Oscinine bird, but a peculiar form of Dendrocblaptinse. 



* Sclater, P. Z. S. 1806, p. 205. 



