Recenthj published Ornithological Works. 485 



name Tcenioptera australis, what is, apparently, a well-known 

 Patagonian and Argentine species, Myiotheretes rufiventris 

 (VieilL), =Pepoaza variegata, d^Orb. et Lafr. He also gives 

 a notice of the eggs of Phosnicopterus andinus, Spheniscus 

 trifasciatus, and /S. humboldti. 



84. Reichenoio and Schalow's ' Compendium.' 



[Compendium der neu beschriebenen Gattungen und Arten. Von 

 Anton Reichenow und Herman Sclialow. J. f. O. 1880, p. 314.] 



Messrs. Reichenow and Schalow continue their most useful 

 ' Compendium ' of newly described species. We suggest that 

 it would have been an advantage to number the species of 

 which the characters are given throughout. One might then 

 bind up the separate copies each year, and make an index to 

 the whole. 



85. Reichenow and Schalow on the Ornithological Litera- 

 ture of 1879. 



[Zoologischer Jahresbericht fiir 1870. Herausgegeben von der zooio- 

 gisclien Station zu Neapel. Leipzig, 1880. Arcs, pp. 1108-1161. Re- 

 ferenten : Dr. A. Reichenow und H. Sclialow in Berlin.] 



We are always sorry to speak of the labours of our fellow- 

 workers otherwise than favourably ; but as a separate copy 

 of Messrs. Reichenow and Schalow^s contributions to the new 

 Zoologischer Jahresbericht for 1879 lias been sent to us, we 

 must presume that it is desired that our candid opinion on 

 the merits of their work should be given. In the first place 

 we may say that the institution of a third •' Record of Zoolo- 

 gical Literature ' when two were already in the field, can only 

 be justified by the allegation that the two previously in ex- 

 istence are not satisfactory. It is clearly therefore the duty 

 of the third and intruding party to produce a more excellent 

 work. But it seems to us that this has not been done, and 

 that the Record now before us is not so full or so accurate as 

 either of its fellows. 



As regards the date of appearance, on which point it must 

 be admitted that there was some ground of dissatisfaction 



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