Recently published Ornithological Works. 271 



DuCane CTodman and Osbert Salvin. (Zoology.) Parts LII.-LX"VT;. 

 4to. London : 1886-88. Published for the Editors by R. II. Porter, 

 10 Chandos Street, Cavendish Sq^uare, W.] 



Since our last notice (Ibis, 1887, p. 107) the energetic 

 Editors of the ' Biologia Centrali- Americana ' have issued no 

 less than sixteen numbers of this important work, in the 

 course of which the Birds are completed up to the end of the 

 Oscines. The families treated of are the Icteridae, Cor- 

 vidae, and Alaudidse. Of the first of these, 42 species are 

 recognized as coming within the limits of the Central Ame- 

 rican avifauna ; while of the Corvidse, 24 species are noticed. 

 Amongst them is our old friend Corvus corax, which descends 

 the high lands of the New World as far south as Guatemala 

 and^ perhaps, Honduras. A single species of Shore Lark re- 

 presents the family Alaudidse in Central America, for which 

 the authors cautiously employ the name Otocorys chrysolcema, 

 Alauda chrysohema of Wagler having been based on Mexican 

 specimens. They do uot^ however, pronounce an opinion 

 upon the difficult question of the specific differences of the 

 American Shore Larks, which Mr. Henshaw has recently 

 divided {' Auk,^ i. p. 260) into nine subspecies ! 



The following species are figured : — Icterus sclateri, Icterus 

 a uratus, Cyanocitta argentigula, and Cyanolyca yucatanica. 



42. Gould's 'Birds of New Guinea.' 



[The Birds of New Guinea and the adjacent Papuan Islands, including 

 any new Species that may be discovered in Australia. By [the late] 

 John Gould, F.R.S. &c. Parts XXni., XXIV. Folio. London: 



1887^8.] 



Two numbers of the ' Birds of New Guinea ' have been 

 issued since our last notice of this work (Ibis, 1887, p. 108), 

 and contain representations of the following species : — 



Part XXIII. (1887). 



Parotia lawesi. Melilestes iliolophus. 



Geoffroyius timorlaoensis. Zosterops rendovte. 



Cyclopsitta coccineifrous. Phonygama purpureoviolacea. 



Calliechthrus leucolophus. Pachycephala christophori. 



Criniger chloris. Rallicula forbesi. 



Laniprocorax minor. Oracticus rufescens. 

 Myzomela nigrita. 



