103 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



should be written " Hydronessa." But vrjaaa (a Duck) is a 

 very bad term to apply to a Heron. 



It would not be difficulty we believe^ to criticise some o£ 

 the other terms and derivations used in Dr. Coues''s volume ; 

 but on the whole the work^ as we have already said^ is, in our 

 opinion^ excellent, and we have no wish to be hypercritical. 

 The new " Check-list " is, without doubt, a most creditable 

 publication. 



9. Elliofs ' Hornbills' 



[A Monograph of the Bucerotidas, or Family of the Hornbills. By 

 D. G. Elliot, F.R.S.E. &c. Part ix. 1881. Part X. 1882.] 



We heartily congratulate Mr. Elliot upon the completion 

 of his beautiful monograph, which, as regai^ds its last-issued 

 parts, has been, perhaps, somewhat unduly procrastinated. 

 With the aid of Mr. Keuleraans's fine illustrations, the deter- 

 mination of the various species of Hornbills is now an easy 

 matter ; and into Mr. Elliotts text is worked up, so far as we 

 know, nearly all the available information upon the subject. 



Mr. Elliot recognizes 60 species of the family Bucerotidse, 

 and divides them into 19 genera, of which 2 {Limonophalus, 

 for B. montani, and Pholidophalus, for B. fistulator) are pro- 

 posed as new in the present numbers. 



The following species are figured in parts ix. and x. : — 



Part IX. 

 Byeanistes cyliudrimis. Pliuliduphalus sharpii. 



Buceros silvestris. Tockus deckeui. 



Penelopides affinis. Tockus hartlaubi. 



Paht X. 



Hydrocorax seuiioaleatus. Byeanistes subquadratus. 



Limonophalus montani. Pholidophalus casuarinus. 



10. Grieve on Remains of the Gare-fowl. 



[Notice of the discovery of Remains of the Great Auk, or Gare-fowl 

 {Alca impennis, L.) on the Island of Oronsay, Argyllshire. By Symino-ton 

 Grieve, Esq. (Communicated by Dr. J. Murie, F.L.S.) Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. Zool. xvi. p. 479 (1882).] 



The remains, consisting of a right humerus and poitions 



