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Recent Ornithological Publications. 



XXXVI. — Notices of Recent Ornithological Publications. 



1. English. 



The Twentieth part of Mr. Gould^s 'Birds of Asia ^ made its 



appearance on the 1st of April last. It contains representations 



of the following : — 



Falco babylonicus. Mesopotamia, 



India. 



sacer. N. Asia, Himalaya. 



lanarius. Palestine to Punjab. 



Cerioi-uis satyra. Nepaul, Sikkini, 



Bhotan. 

 Salpornis spilonota. Oude, Behar, 



Chanda. 

 Malacoturnix superciliosus. Mus- 



soorie. 

 Hesperiphona afFinis. W.Himalaya. 

 Cecropis rufula. Palestine. 



Cecropis daurica. Altai, Dauria, 



China. 



erythropygia. India. 



hyperythra. Ceylon. 



Delichon nipalensis. Nepaul. 

 Hypurolepis domicola. Nilgherries, 



Ceylon, Borneo. 

 Lagenoplastes fluvicola. Punjab, 



Cashmere. 

 Melanochlora sultanea. Himalaya 



to Sumatra. 

 Callene albiventris. S. India. 



Considering the vast host of Asiatic species which have never 

 been figured, we must say we think that Mr. Gould would be more 

 completely consulting the progress of ornithology, if he gave 

 them a preference in selecting the subjects of his magnificent 

 plates. A large proportion of those in the above list have been 

 before figured — some of them many times, and some of them 

 quite recently. Surely it would be time enough to refigure 

 species when all those already unfigured, or only misfigured, were 

 done with. The Malacoturnix superciliosus above mentioned 

 is the same species as that called by Mr. Blyth in our last year's 

 volume (Ibis, 1867, pp. 313, 314) Malacorfj/x super ciliaris, 

 our contributor having, in the space of two months, changed 

 both the generic and specific names, the lattei*, however, no 

 doubt by a mere slip of the pen. Hypurolepis is a new generic 

 name proposed in place of Lesson's Herse, which is said to have 

 been previously appropriated by Oken. 



It is with extreme satisfaction that we have to notice, and 

 recommend to our readers, Mr. Sharpens ' Monograph of the 

 Alcedinida,' of which the first part has lately appeared"^. We 



* A Monograph of the Alcedinidas or Kingfishers, by R. B. Sharpe. 

 The plates drawn and lithographed by Mr. J. G. Keulemans. Part i. 

 July 1st, 1868. London: Roy. 8vo. 



