458 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



A new name {Emeus gravipes) is proposed for Emeus 

 gravis, Owen. 



The volume contains accounts of about 129 genera and 

 250 species of fossil birds. 



84. Meyer on an albino Grey-hen in male plumage. 



[Partieller Albinismus einer hahnenfedrigeu Birkhenne. Von A. B. 

 Meyer. ' Diana,' 1891, p. 162.] 



Dr. A. B. Meyer has kindly sent us a number of ' Diana/ 

 a Swiss sporting journal published at Berne^ in which he 

 has described a partially albino hen of Tetrao tetrix in male 

 plumage. The specimen, obtained in Entlebuch, had been 

 variously determined by those who had previously examined 

 it. But it has now fortunately become one of the fine series 

 of varieties and hybrids of the Tetraones in the Royal Zoo- 

 logical Museum at Dresden, and we may safely rely on Dr. 

 Meyer's determination of it. His remarks on this curious 

 bird will be read with interest. 



85. Meyer and Helm's Report on the Ornithological Ob- 

 serving- Stations for Saxony for 1889. 



[V. Jahresbericht (1889) der ornithologischen Beobachtungstationen im 

 Konigreich Sacbsen, bearbeitet von Dr. A. B. Meyer und von Dr. F. 

 Helm. 4to. Dresden: 1890.] 



We have the j)leasure of calling attention to another of 

 this excellent series of reports [cf. Ibis, 1890, p. 251), which 

 is a model of what such publications should be. It contains 

 the accounts of 47 observers for 1889. There are 208 

 species of birds included in the list. 



86. North on the plumage of Malurus. 



[Notes upon the Plumage of the Adult Males in certain species of the 

 Genus Malurus. By A. J. North, F.L.S. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, 

 ser. 2, V. p. 505.] 



Gould was in error, according to Mr. North and other 

 Australian authorities, in asserting that the male Maluri 



