171 Recently inihUsItcd Ornithological Works. 



Having finished this portion of the subject, M. Oustalet 

 proceeds to consider the species recorded by other authorities 

 as occurring in Patajjonia and Fnegia, but of wliich specimens 

 were not obtained by tlie French expedition. These are 1)9 

 in nuuil)er, and raise the total of the list of the known birds 

 of Antarctic America to al)ont 200. Tables showing the 

 distribution of these species and remarks tluM'cupon conchule 

 the essay. 



The following species are illustrated by well-executed 

 plates : — Tinamotis ingoujl, Ratlus r/ii/tirhi/nc/ius, Lanis 

 scoresbii, Micropterus cinereus, M. patachonicus, and Phnla- 

 crocorax cnninculatus. 



18. Oustalet on two neir Birds. 



[Description de deux espoces nomollos d'Oisoaux, appartfuant aux 

 families des rai'adiseida> ot dcs Trogouid;©. Par I'], (-)astalet. Lo Natii- 

 ralisto, Y' Xov"" 1891 (p. 200). J 



The author describes a new RiHe-bird frcnn a ''native" 

 Papuan skin without feet, which he proposes to call Cras- 

 pedophora niantoui, and a new Trogon, from the interior of 

 Venezuela, under the name Trogon {Calurus) hargitti, dis- 

 tinguished from all the previously-known species of this 

 genus by its orange-yellow belly. Is not this the same as 

 Pharoniacrus xanthogaster , Turati & Salvadori, P. Z. S. 1874, 

 p. 65.2 ? 



19. Ramsay's Catalogue of Birds in the Australian Museum. 



[Catalogue of the Australian Uirds in the Australian Museum, at 

 Sydney, N. S. W. Part III. PsittAci. By E. P. Kamsay, LL.D., 

 F.R.S.E. 8vo. Sydney: 1891.] 



The third sectiou of Mr. Ramsay's ' Catalogue of the 

 Australian Birds in the Australian Museum at Sydney ' con- 

 tains an accoimt of the Parrots, of which the author recog- 

 nizes 59 species and 6 " varieties " as now known to occur in 

 Australia. These varieties it would be better to term " sub- 

 species " in most cases. In all 750 specimens have been 

 examined during the preparation of the Catalogue, those of 

 the Adelaide and other museums having been brought into 



