Recently published Ornithohgical Works. 559 



Under the circumstances, however, it was, perhaps, not 

 undesirable that the type specimen should be forthcoming. 



While engaged in re-arranging the Bird-collections in the 

 Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art, with which the 

 University Collections have long been incorporated, I came 

 across the type specimen of Rubecola tytleri. An examina- 

 tion of it leaves no room for doubt that it is simply an old 

 male of Muscicapa parva, Bechstein, and that it is not 

 referable to M. albiciUa, Pallas { = M. leucura, Gmelin), with 

 which it has been hitherto, though doubtfully, associated. 



One more point remains for notice regaixling this bird, 

 namely, that its synonymic appellation is usually quoted as 

 Erijthaca tytleri [cf. Cat. B. Brit. Mus. iv. p. 162). I am 

 not yet aware that Professor Jameson ever applied the generic 

 name Erythaca to this species ; and he certainly has not done 

 so in the references above furnished. 



It may be of interest to note that Mr. Gates (' Fauna 

 of British India,' Birds, ii. p. 9) remarks that he has not seen 

 an example of Siphia [ = Muscicapa] parva from any portion 

 of the Himalayas. 



XLIX. — Notices of recent Ornithological Publications. 



[Continued from p. 466.] 



94. Baldamus on the Cuckoos and other parasitic Birds. 



[Das Leben der europjiischen Kuckucke, nebst Beitragen zur Lebens- 

 kunde der iibrigen parasitischen Kuckucke und Starliuge. Von A. C. 

 Eduard Baklamus. iAIit 8 Farbendrucktafeln. Berlin, 1892. 224 pp.] 



The veteran ornithologist Dr. E. Baldamus, whose studies 

 on the Cuckoo question are so well known to us, returns to 

 his favourite theme in the present volume, and gives a 

 summary of the results which he has arived at. So far as 

 we can make out his views, it seems that the celebrated 

 theory of the similarity of the Cuckoo's eggs to those of the 

 foster-parent is not much advanced in this publication, 

 although fresh instances in support of it are given. Nor is 

 any explanation of the facts brought forward, although Prof. 



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