564 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



106. Boucard on a new Pseudocolaptes. 



[Description d'une espece nouvelle de Pseudocolaptes, provenant de 

 Costa-Rica. Par A. Boucard. (Extr. du Bull, de la Soc. Zool. de France 

 pour I'annee 1881. Seance du 14 dec. 1880.)] 



M. Boucard is too late^ we fear, with his description of 

 Pseudocolaptes costaricensis, which has already beeu named 

 by Mr. Ridgway (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1878, i. p. 253) P. 

 lawrencii. 



107. Brusina on Anomalies in some Croatian Birds. 



[Anomalien der Ornis Croatica. Aus der Sammlung des zoologischen 

 National-Museums in Agram, von Spiridion Brusina. Mitth. Ornith. 

 Ver. in Wien, 1883, no. 4.] 



The author commences with a sketch of the condition of 

 the national collection at Agram, which contains 266 species ; 

 and proceeds to consider varieties in colour, principally 

 albinisms, malformations of bill and of feet, and hybrids 

 (domestic fowls) . He also notes the recent occurrence of 

 Stercorarius pomatorhinus and S. parasiticus in Croatia. 



108. ' Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological Club.' 



[Bulletin of tlie Nuttall Ornithological Club : a Quarterly Jom-nal of 

 Ornithology. Vol. viii. nos. 2 & 3, 1883. Cambridge, Mass.] 



Amongst many papers of interest in these two numbers of 

 our contemporary, we may call special attention to Mr. 

 Cory's descriptions of new birds from San Domingo {Contopus 

 frazari, Sayor'nis dominicensis, Myiarchus ruficaudatus, and 

 Strix dominiceiisis) . Mr. Cory would have done well to state 

 to what kiiown species his new Strix is most nearly allied. 



Mr. Walter B. Barrows gives us the two first parts of an 

 excellent series of life-notes on the birds of the Lower Uru- 

 guay, principally made at Concepcion, about 200 miles north 

 of Buenos Ayres. The specimens obtained are in most cases 

 referable to well-known Buenos- Ayrean species ; but a Finch 

 [Sperm,ophila palustris) is described as new. 



109. Dalgleish on Passer montanus. 



[Note on the Occurrence of the Tree-Sparrow in Argyllshire, and its 



