Recently published Ornithological Works. 107 



toire Naturelle in 1881. It consists of 29 specimens, belong- 

 ing to 21 species. Merops revoilii (allied to M. bullocki) is 

 described as new. 



20. Oustalet on a new Form of GallincB. 



[Description d'un type peu connu de I'Ordre dea Gallinaces. Par M. E. 

 Oustalet. Bull. Ass. Scientif. de France, No. 120 (1882), p. 242.] 



For many years some remarkable tail-feathers have graced 

 the collection of the Jardin des Plantes, upon which the late 

 Jules Verreaux based the provisional name of Argus ocel- 

 latus*. A whole specimen of the bird has now been obtained 

 from the interior of Tonquin, and turns out to belong, not to 

 Argus, but to a new allied form of Gallinse, which M. Ous- 

 talet proposes to call Rheinhardius, after M. Rheinhard, who 

 sent home the specimen. Rheinurdius ocellatus has not the 

 long secondaries oi Argus, nor its two lengthened median tail- 

 feathers. The tail is composed of twelve large graduated 

 rectrices : its head is wholly feathered. 



21. Palmen on the Migration of Birds. 



[Antwort au Ilerru E. F. von Homeyer bezuglicb der " Zugstrassen der 

 Vogel." Von Dr. J. A. Palmen. 8vo. Helsingfors und Leipzig : 1882.] 



E. F. von Homeyer has published several severe and furious 

 attacks upon Palmen^s remarkable work, ' Ueber die Zug- 

 strassen der VogeP (Leipzig, 1876). The Swedish natu- 

 ralist now issues an elaborate reply, which we can only 

 describe as a choice specimen of an " Antikritik.'^ Indeed, 

 its sharp and merciless logic reminds us of some of Lessing's 

 best critical essays. 



22. Parker on the Skeleton of Notornis mantelli. 



[On the Skeleton of Notornis mantelli. By T. Jeflf'ery Parker, B.Sc. 

 London. Trans. & Proc. New-Zealand Inst. xiv. p. 245.] 



Mr. T. J. Parker gives a long and elaborate description of 

 the skeleton of the specimen of Notornis, of which the ex- 

 ternal parts are described by Dr. Buller [v. s. p. 98), and 

 illustrates his remarks with four plates. Mr. Parker com- 



♦ Cf. Elliot, Mon. Phas. i. t. xiii, figs. 1-3. 



