222 Recent Ornitholoyical Publicatiuns. 



It gives us great pleasure thus to notice a publication in every 

 way commendable, whether we regard the zeal and conscien- 

 tiousness with which the author has worked, the novelty of the 

 subject, or the profuseness with which it is illustrated. 



The third volume of the ' Bulletin ' of the ' Nouvelles Ar- 

 chives du Museum ' contains an illustrated paper by M. Jules 

 Verreaux, in which two species of birds are described as new, and 

 a third is figured for the first time. The first of these three 

 species is Chatura grandidieri, discovered on the east coast of 

 Madagascar by M. Alfred Grandidier, of whose labours in elu- 

 cidating the fauna of the " grande ile Africaine " we have pre- 

 sently to speak at greater length. The second is made the type 

 of a new genus under the name of Ampelioides flavitorques ; but 

 our friend Mr. Sclater informs us that he has examined the 

 specimen (sent from the Rio Napo and now in the Paris Mu- 

 seum) on which this genus and species is founded, and finds 

 it to be identical with Ampelion cinctus (Tschudi) already figured 

 in the ' Proceedings of the Zoological Society ' (1855, p. 152, 

 pi. 104). The third species of which M. Verreaux treats is Fuu- 

 dia eminentisswia, Bp. (Consp. Av. i. p. 446), a very beautiful 

 bird from Zanzibar, of which the collection at Paris contains the 

 unique example. We may remark that, considering the very 

 small range of oiher species of this genus, we are very much in- 

 clined to doubt the truth of the supposition hazarded by Bona- 

 parte {loc. cit.), and repeated by Dr. Hartlaub (Orn. Madag. 

 p. 56), as to an immature or female specimen, obtained in Ma- 

 dagascar, and now also at Paris, belonging to this species. 



In the 'E-evue et Magasin de Zoologie' for last year M. 

 Alleon pleads (pp. 1-7) for the admission into the European 

 Fauna of Accipiter badias and Columba risoria. By the former 

 is, of course, meant in reality A. brevipes {cf. Ibis, 1865, pp. 

 341 , 342) ; and no one can doubt the propriety of including it as 

 a bird of South-eastern Europe. Touching the occurrence of 

 the latter at Constantinople, we may refer to the evidence of 

 Mr. E. C. Taylor (Ibis, 186 i, p. 410), as well as to the older 

 testimony of Strickland (P. Z. S. 1836, p. 100) and Colonel 



