572 Becently published Ornithological Works. 



slender-billed group which includes ^strelata cooki, JE. deso- 

 lata, and ^. defilipinana," and is apparently most nearly allied 

 to the last named. The single specimen was obtained at 

 Kodiak Island, Alaska, by Mr. W. J. Fisher, and is named 

 M.jischeri after its discoverer. 



] 22. ^harpe's Catalogue of the Timeliida. 



[Catalogue of the Passeriforraes or Perchiug; Birds in the Collection of 

 the British Museum. Cichlomorphne : Part IV., containing- the con- 

 cluding portion of the Family TimcliidfP (Babbling Thrushes). By R. 

 Bowdler Sharpe. London. Vol. vii. Printed by order of the Trustees. 



1883.] 



Every ornithologist must admire the untiring industry with 

 which Mr. Sharpe has continued to work at the catalogue of 

 Birds of the British Museum, even at an epoch when the 

 transfer of the National Collection and its rearrangement 

 at South Kensington might well be supposed to absorb all 

 his time and attention. The thick volume (containing 700 

 pages and 15 plates) now before us shows that whatever other 

 calls may be upon him, the great work on which he has already 

 expended so much time and toil will not be allowed to stand 

 still, so far as he is concerned. 



As it is confessed in the preface that the Timeliidfle, as 

 here treated of, are not supposed to be a natural group, we 

 need say little upon this question ; but it would in our 

 opinion have been a much better plan to have simply followed 

 such a system as SundevalFs ^Tentamen,^ or even G. R. 

 Gray^s Hand- list, than to make a new arrangement which is 

 confessedly erroneous. The Thamnohia, for instance, of the 

 present volume (or at any rate the greater part of them) 

 are quite unnaturally divorced from their fellows, which are 

 partly mixed up in Mr. Sharpens Muscicapidse and partly in 

 Mr. Seebohm^s Turdidse. Nor can we understand what 

 Accentor has to do with the Timeliidae. 



The new genera proposed in the present volume are twenty 

 in number, namely : — 



