324 Recently published Ornithological Works. [Ibis, 



five numbers since we last noticed it, and we will briefly 

 summarize their contents. The first article by the editor 

 is accompanied by an exact reproduction of the Watling 

 drawinsr, made in 1790, on which Latham founded his 

 Columha pallida. This was identified by Gould with the 

 Cuckoo since generally known as Caconiantis pallida^ and, 

 though doubts have been cast on this identification since l)y 

 Hartert and Sharpe, Mr. Mathews believes that Gould's 

 original identification is correct and must be accepted. 

 Another Watling drawing is also reproduced on which 

 Latham founded his Certhia atricapilia. This bird, obvi- 

 ously a Honey-eater, is called Melithreptus atricapillus in 

 Mr. Mathews's last List. The synonymy and identilica'ion 

 are here discussed. 



Of bibliographical papers one is by Messrs. Mathew and 

 Iredale on Levrault's ' Dictionuaire des Science Naturelles,' 

 published between 1816 and 1839 at Paris. The articles on 

 birds were by C. Duniont, and according to Messrs. Mathew 

 and Iredale recognition of the names used by him involves 

 several changes in current literature. Another paper of 

 similar nature by the same authors deals with Boddaert's 

 ' Tables des Planches Enluminees.' 



Among some drawings now in the possession of Mr. 

 Godmau, made by a Mr. George Raper at the end of 

 the eighteenth century on Lord Howe Island, is one of a 

 now extinct and undescribed Fruit-Pigeon, believed by 

 Mr. Mathews to be distantly allied to the New Caledonian 

 Phmnorhiiia. He proposes to call it Raperia (/odinance, after 

 the artist and Mrs. Godman. 



In the fourth number are some biographical details of 

 Silvester Diggles, a good naturalist and observer who lived 

 in Queensland from 1854 to his death in 1880. He pub- 

 lished a work called ' Ornithology of Australia ' in parts 

 between 1866 and 1870. Of this Mr. Mathews gives a 

 bibliographical account, and the article is accompanied by 

 a portrait of Diggles himself. 



Some confusion has been caused by Latham's assertion 

 that his Sea^Eagle, which is undoubtedly Haliu'elus albicilla, 



