218 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



Mr. Niilting spent four weeks in March and April last at 

 the hacienda La Palma on the Gulf of Nicoya^ Pacific coast 

 of Costa Rica^ and obtained examples of 97 species of birds^ 

 on which some excellent field-observations are given. Mr. 

 Ridgway, who has determined the species, adds some valuable 

 critical notes. Icterus pectoralis espinachi is a new subspecies, 

 and Myiarchus nultingi a new species. Muscivora mexicana 

 was found abundant and breeding. 



64. Oates on the Birds of Pegu. 



[A List of the Birds of Pegu. By Eugene W. Oates. Stray Feathers, 

 vol. X. p. 175.] 



A. carefully drawn-up list of the birds ascertained to occur 

 in the British province of Pegu, of which a map is given, 

 showing its exact limits and general features. Short notices 

 of their distribution and times of occurrence are added; and 

 in the cases of rare or doubtful species further explanations 

 are given. The list contains 454 species, arranged in the 

 order of Mr. Hume's Catalogue and according to his nomen- 

 clature, with but few exceptions. Pegu seems to be a para- 

 dise of Sylviadae in certain seasons ; Calliope kamtschatkensis 

 and Cyanecula suecica are "very abundant" in the cold 

 weather, and Locustella lanceolata andL. certhiola "extremely 

 common.^' 



65. ^ Ornithologist and Oologist.' 



[Ornithologist and Oologist. Vol. vii. Nos. 22 & 23. November and 

 December 1882. Joseph M. Wade, Boston, U. S. A.] 



We have lately been favoured with copies of several num- 

 bers of this American magazine of popular ornithology, now 

 in its eighth year of publication. It contains principally 

 notes of the life-history of the birds of North America. In 

 the two numbers now before us an interesting notice is given 

 of the habits and nesting of Phainopepla nitens, as observed 

 by Mr. B. W. Everman in Southern California. 



66. Payne-Gallwey' s 'Fowler in Ireland.' 



[The FoAYler in Ireland, or Notes on the Haunts and Habits of Wild- 



