Recently published Ornithological Works. 617 



distinguished by Mr. Seebohm as R. teneriffa, he should not 

 prefix to it his own subsequently given name ! Erithacus 

 superbus, it is still maintained^ is an " ausgezeichnete gate 

 Art " restricted (as is Fringilla teydea) to TenerifFe ! How 

 prior observers can have missed it Dr. Koenig cannot under- 

 stand. It is quite evident^ however^ that Mr. Meade- Waldo 

 (c/. Ibis, 1889, p. 2) was well acquainted with the Robin of 

 Teneriffe, although he did not consider its slight variation in 

 colour of great importance. 



Dr. Koenig also visited the island of Palma, and concludes 

 his essay with an account of his ornithological adventures on 

 this island and a list of its birds. These he makes to be 38 

 in number. To his remarks on the priority of the discovery 

 of Fringilla jjalma sive coei'ulescens we leave Canon Tristram 

 to reply, nor do we care to notice the unfriendly footnote 

 which the editor of the J. f. O. has thought fit to append 

 to them. 



Finally we should mention that Dr. Koenig's interesting 

 essay is accompanied by well-executed figures of Cerchneis 

 tinnunculus canariensis, Dendrocopus major canariensis, Eri- 

 thacus superbus and E. rubecula, Parus ultramarinus and 

 P. teneriffce, Regulus satelles and R. cristatus, Fringilla tin- 

 tillon madeirensis , F. canariensis, and F. ccerulescens, and of a 

 series of eggs of Madeiran and Canarian birds. 



102. List of Birds' Eggs in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. 



[List of Birds' Eggs in tlie Indian Museum, Calcutta. 2nd edition, 

 revised up to March 1st, 1891. 8vo. Calcutta: 1891.] 



The author of the new list of birds' eggs in the Indian 

 Museum, Calcutta, has modestly withheld his name from this 

 useful publication, with a copy of which we have been 

 favoured. It gives a list of the species of which eggs are in 

 the collection, arranged according to Mr. Oates's new edition 

 of Hume's ' Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds,-* with the exact 

 localities and the donor's name appended to each set. A 

 reference to the volume and page of Mr. Oates's work is 

 added in each case. 



