368 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



Mr. Ridgway holds that the specimen of Phijyilus gayi (so 

 labelled) in the Jai'din des Plantes, which was examined by 

 Sclater and Salvin in 1869 [cf. Ibis, 1869, p. 285), was ^^not 

 the type of that species, but one of Gay^s wrongly identified 

 specimens." Mr. Ridgway accordingly makes Emberiza 

 aldunatei, G^y ,:= Fi'im/illa gayi, and Phygilus gayi, Scl. et 

 Saiv., = P. formosns. Tbis view, however, is not accepted by 

 Mr. Sharpe in the Catalogue of Birds (xii. p. 781), Mr. 

 Ridgway now gives the synonymy and characters of this 

 group of the genus Phrygilus, and includes in it a new species 

 from Lake Titicaca, which he proposes to call P. pwiensis. 



7G. Salvadori on a new Hemixus. 



[Descrizioue di una Specie del Genere Hcinixus raccolta in Sumatra 

 dal Dott. O. Beccari. Per Tommaso Salvadori. Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. 

 Nat. Genova, scr. 2, v. p. 525.] 



The eight examples of Hemixus obtained by Dr. Beccari 

 on Mount Singalan in Sumatra in 1878, and referred by 

 Count Salvadori in his list of Dr. Beccari's collection to 

 H. malaccensis, prove to belong to a distinct species, pro- 

 posed to be called Hemixus sumatranus. 



77. Salvadori on the Caspian Plover in Italy. 



[La jfEc/ialitis asiatica (Pall.) trovata per la prima volta in Italia. Nota 

 di Tommaso Salvadori, Atti R. Accad. Sci. Torino, xxiii. p. 44.] 



On November 15, 1887, a specimen of this very rare 

 wanderer to Europe was obtained in the flesh from a game- 

 dealer in Turin, by Signor Enrico Marchisio, being the first 

 instance of the occurrence of this species in Italy. It 

 was said to have been shot on the banks of the Metaurus, 

 fatal, it will be remembered, to the more distinguished 

 invader Hasdrubal. Two examples of this Plover have been 

 taken on Heligoland, but, with the exception of one obtained 

 near Odessa, no others have been recorded on this side of 

 the Caspian. In the reference " {Mas. Britannico, fide 

 Saunders) ,'' for its occurrence in the Altai Mountains, we 

 tliink there must be some mistake. 



