612 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



1 being many shades paler in S. parva. I thiuk there can 

 be no question as to their specific distinctness/* 



-f-5. QUISCALUS NICARAGUENSIS, Sp. n. 



Purpureus seneo micans^ fere unicolor, alis minus nitidis, uro- 

 pygio purpurascentiore, rostro et pedibus nigris. Long, 

 tota 12*0, alse 5*0, caudse rectr. med. 5*5, rectr. lat. 3*3, 

 rostri a rictii r4, tarsi 1'5. 

 ? . Supra brunnea, dorso, alis, et cauda saturatioribus et 

 purpureo vix tinetis ; super ciliis obsoletis, quam regio 

 i parotica vix pallidioribus : subtus sordide albida, pectore 



paulo obscuriore, hypochondriis et tectricibus subcau- 

 dalibus brunneis : rostro et pedibus nigris. Long, tota 

 9'5, alae 4*1, caudse rectr. med. 4*0, rectr. lat. 2*5, rostri 

 a rictu 1*15, tarsi 1*25. 

 \ Hab. Momotombo, Lake Managua ( W. B. Richardson) . 



A very distinct species of Quiscalus, belonging to the same 

 section as Q. macrurus, but of much smaller dimensions, the 

 male less brilliant, and the female of a much paler dirty 

 white colour beneath, instead of brown. 



Mr. Richardson sends us several specimens, of both sexes, 

 of this bird, all shot in May of the present year at Momo- 

 tombo, on the shores of Lake Managua. 



LIT. — Notices of recent Ornithological Publications. 

 [Continued from p. 463.] 



94. Allen on a new Mimocichla. 



[Description of a new Species of Mimocichla, from the Island of Do- 

 minica, West Indies, By J. A. Allen. Auk, viii. p. 217.] 



Mr. Allen proposes to separate the Mimocichla of Dominica 

 from M. ardesiaca of San Domingo as M. veinllorum. He has 

 since discovered [cf. Auk, 1891, p. 317) that the same bird 

 had previously been named Mimocichla ardesiaca albiventris 

 {cf. Sclater, P. Z. S. 1889, p. 326), and accordingly alters the 

 name to Mimocichla albiventris. 



