104 Recent Ornithological Publications. 



also represented M. Galliard's original description of Ruticilla 

 moussieri; but, from the silence maintained on the subject, our 

 contemporary is apparently not aware that a good deal of addi- 

 tional information respecting the species has been furnished in 

 the pages of this Journal (Ibis, 1859, pp. 307, 416, 1860, pp. 

 361-367, pi. xi.). To Dr. de Montessus we are indebted for an 

 essay (pp. 369-389), very full of details and illustrated by two 

 plates, on Montagues Harrier, Circus cineraceus, which forms 

 almost a monograph of the species, though we must say we are 

 not entirely satisfied with the account given of the difi'erent 

 stages of plumage. 



The volume for 1866, besides continuations of certain of the 

 papers above mentioned, and a few other articles of less im- 

 portance, contains some remarks by MM. Alleon (pp. 273-277) 

 and Vian (pp. 356-359) on the Aquila mogilnik of S. G. Gmelin. 

 The subject, we think, requires further elucidation. M. Jules 

 Verreaux (pp. 353-356) describes and figures, as new, Accipiter 

 lantzi, from Madagascar, and Malacoptila castanea, from Bogota, 

 the last of which, as we learn from Mr. P. L. Sclater, who has 

 seen the type, is a very good species. M. Vian also continues 

 his " Causeries," and treats (pp. 401-410) of the Anas glocituns 

 and A. falcata of Pallas, respecting the first of which so many 

 mistakes have been made. 



3. Swiss. 



The Swiss Ornithological Society has published a second in- 

 stalment of its 'Bulletin^*, which contains matter hardly less 

 interesting than the first, of which we spoke more than two years 

 since (Ibis, 1865, pp. 530-532), as the following list of articles 

 will show : — 



Sur le grand Corbeau (Corrus corax), par G. Lunel. 



Lanius dubitis, par le Dr. Depierre. 



Melanges: (I.) le Verderole (Calamohcrpe palustris), 



(II.) le Martinet a ventre blanc (Cypsehis alpinus), par V.Fatio. 



Nidification de V Orthotomus longicauda, par A. Hujibert. 



Supplements I., II., par V. Fatio. 



Extrait des proces-verbaux des annees 1865 et 1866. 



* Bulletin de la Societe Ornithologique Suisse. Tome I. S^e partie. 

 Geneve et Paris : 1866. (London, Williams and Norgate.) 



