1922.] Recently pi(blish('(l Oi-idtholugical Works. 585 



combination of Latin and Greek roots ; but this is u mis- 

 taken idea, both roots being Greek. 



All these ground-species have most interesting habits, 

 which cannot be detailed here, while not the least im- 

 portant is the Ground-Thrush (Oreocincla lunata) named 

 by Latham from the Watling drawings, but subsequently 

 confounded with 0. varia of Japan. Only one species is 

 now recognized, those formerly proposed being reduced to 

 subspecies, which are invariably inhabitants of damp hill- 

 gullies, and hardly fly at all. 



The next genus, Ephthiamiro, is divided into four i)y 

 Mr. Mathews, each containing a single species of very 

 distinct coloration. Hence we have E. albifrons, Pare- 

 phthiannra tricolor, Aurephtliianura aurifrons, and Leachena 

 crocea, a set of birds with hal)its like those of Chats or even 

 Robins, but different notes. The position of this group is 

 very doubtful, but it is an error to place it Avith Acanthiza. 



In 1910 was discoveied the rare Desert Chat, a denizen 

 of the stony Central Australian table-land. Tiie discoverer, 

 !Mr. Love, sent it to Mr. Ashby, who described it as 

 Ephthianura lovensis, but North separated it generically 

 as Ashbi/ia. The first examples had strayed to South 

 Australia, but the nest and eggs came from the interior, 

 where they were found by Mr. Waite of Capt. White's 

 Expedition. The part ends with the well-known Australian 

 Reed- Warbler, where we notice that Billberg's Conopoderus 

 is substituted for Acrocephalus of most authors. 



The subspecies in pt. 7 are given as in the author's 

 former lists, but with considerable hesitation in some cases. 



Rileifs recent papers. 



[A new Drt/onastes from Szechueu, Cliina, pp. o9-60. Ou Chloro- 

 i^pinyus f/oeruufi ScLiter & Salvin, pp. 01-6:?. An additioual note on 

 tl)e niime of the luca Tern, p. 77. Note on a rare Paroquet from 

 Venezuela, p. 77. Note on Anas arcuata Plorsfield, p. 78. ]>\ J. K. 

 Kiley. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washinoton, vol. 35, Wl'l.] 



In the first note, Dryonastes yrakami, a very distinct new 

 Laughing Tiirush from Mt. Omei in Szechuan, is described. 



