Recently published Ornithological Works. 285 



gronp^ of which examples were obtained by the describer in 

 May, 1894, in the neighbourhood of Kok-Dschida, near the 

 outflow of the Temir into the Emba. It is elaborately de- 

 scribed by M. Suschkin in the present paper, and will be 

 figured in Menzbier^s ' Ornithology of Turkestan/ 



67. Thomjjson' s ' Glossary of Greek Birds.' 



[A Glossary of Greek Birds. By D'Arcy Wentwortli Thompson. 8vo. 

 Oxford, 1895.] 



All students of bird -lore will be grateful to Prof. D^Arcy 

 Thompson for the pains he has taken in the compilation of this 

 useful volume, and to the Delegates of the Clarendon Press 

 for having printed and published it. It is a dictionary of 

 Greek birds, containing all the birds^ names used in that 

 ancient tongue arranged alphabetically, with a learned dis- 

 quisition on each of them. The authors by whom the names 

 are employed, the epithets applied to them, their etymology, 

 their various meanings, and all other recorded particulars 

 are fully given and descanted upon. To some of these Greek 

 names, of course, there is no sort of difficulty in stating the 

 modern scientific equivalent ; the eVoi^ is Upiipa epops, and 

 the irekap'yo'i is Ciconia alba. But in other cases the exact 

 species referred to is by no means clear, and there are ample 

 grounds for more than one interpretation. It will be seen 

 at once, also, how many terms there are of which the meaning 

 is rightly pronounced to be "uncertain" or "indefinite." 

 Not a few of these, however, have been applied by modern 

 systematists to species to which they cannot possibly 

 have been intended to refer by the ancient authors. ' Greek 

 Birds ' will be welcomed by ornithologists as dealing with a 

 branch of their subject which has been but slightly treated 

 of in recent times. 



68. Townsend on Birds from Cocos and Malpelo Islands. 



[Birds from Cocos and Malpelo Islands, with Notes on Petrels obtained 

 at Sea. By C. H. Townsend. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard Coll. 

 xxvii. p. 121.] 



Cocos Island lies off the Bay of Panama, midway between 



