Recently published Ornithological Works. 143 



Brit. Mus. Cat. Birds, published in 1877, gives 33 species; 

 that Fringilla hornemanni " is found as a breeding-species 

 in Northern Iceland ^^ (p. 394), whereas L. linaria is tlie 

 breeding species there, L. hornemanni only occurring as a 

 rare winter visitor ; and that Colymbus adamsi " is an Ame- 

 rican species " (better circumpolar) " said to have occurred 

 once or twice on the coast of England " (p. 572), whereas 

 several undoubted occurrences might have been cited. 



10. Godman and Salvin's ' Bioloyia Centrali- Americana.' 



[Biologia Centrali-Americana : or, Contributions to the Knowledge of 

 the Fauna and Flora of Mexico and Central America. Edited by F. 

 DuCane Godman and Osbert Salvin. (Zoology.) Parts CXXIII.-CXXV. 

 4to. London : 1895. Published for the Editors by R. H. Porter, 18 

 Princes Street, Cavendish Square, W.] 



Parts cxxiii., cxxiv,, and cxxv. of this important work 

 have been issued since our last notice ('The Ibis,' 1895, 

 p. 394). They contain two portions of the second volume 

 of Aves (pp. 457-480), and carry on the subject through 

 the Motmots and Kingfishers to the commencement of the 

 Trogons. The term Prionornis is proposed in place of Prono- 

 rhynchus, which has been previously used in Crustacea. 



11. Hamilton on the Feathers of the Moa. 



[On the Feathers of a small Species of Moa {Megalaptei-yx) found in a 

 cave at the head of the Waikaia River, with a notice of a Moa-hunter's 

 Camping-place on the Old Man Range. By A. Hamilton. Trans. N. 

 Zealand Inst, xxvii. p. 232.] 



After mentioning previous instances of the discovery of 

 the feathers of Dinornis in New Zealand, Mr. Hamilton tells 

 us of the finding by a miner of a very complete specimen of 

 the dried leg of a small species of Moa in a cave in one of 

 the Wakaia gorges. The leg ''still retains the dried skin and 

 muscle, and carries a quantity of double-shafted feathers.^' 

 It agrees with " Prof. Owen's specimen assigned to Dinornis 

 didinus in having the metatarsus feathered.'' This interest- 

 ing specimen will be described by Dr. T. J. Parker of Otago. 

 Mr. Hamilton made an expedition into this district in 1891 



