620 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



9 or 10 cubitals, 2 or 3 metacarpals, and a single mid-digital. 

 On the whole it apjiears to him that the structure of the 

 wing lends support to the view that the llatitse are the de- 

 scendants of birds that possessed the power of flight, and 

 that both Ratitse and Carinatse have been derived from an 

 early group of typical flying birds, or Proto-carinata. 



] 07. Pleske on some Hybrid Birds. 



[Beschreiljung einiger Vogelbastarde. Von Theodor Pleske. Mem. 

 Acad. Imp. Sci. St. Petersb. ser. 7, xxxv. no. 5.] 



Herr Pleske describes some hybrids from specimens in the 

 Museum of the Academy of Sciences of St. Petersburg — 

 Tetrao tetrix x Bonasa betulina, Motacilla flava beema x 

 M. melanocephala, Parus borealis x Lophophanes cristatus, 

 and Emberiza citrinella x E. leucocephala. These birds are 

 also figured. 



108. Romita on Additions to the Puglian Avifauna. 



[Aggiunte alia Ornitologia Pugliese. Pel Dott. Vincenzo de Romita. 

 Annuario R. Istit. Tecnico-Nautico. Bari : 1889.] 



Prof, de Romita has recorded in his 'Avifauna Pugliese'* 

 the occurrence of 265 species of birds in Puglia. He has 

 sedulously continued his observations since 1884, when the 

 first list was issued, and now publishes his remarks on some 

 species additional to the list, about 15 in number. A coloured 

 plate is given to illustrate the variations in the different forms 

 of Budytes jlavus. 



109. Salvadori on a Wagtail new to Italy. 



[Intorno ad una Cutrettola nuova per 1' Italia. Nota di Tommaso 

 Salvadori. Boll. Mus. Zool. ed Anat. comp. R. Univ. Torino, vi. no. 101.] 



The oriental form of Budytes flavus (called Budytes beema, 

 Sykes) has occurred on the south-eastern coast of Italy. 

 Count Salvadori has recognized two specimens of it among 

 some Wagtails submitted to his inspection by Prof, de Ro- 

 mita, of Bari, the author of the ' Avifauna Pugliese ' *. These 



* Avifaima Pugliese. Catalogo sistematico degli Uccelli osservati in 

 Puglia pel Dott. Vincenzo de Romita. Bari : 1884. 



