Notices of Ornithological Works. 321 



61. BuTORiDESJAVANicus(Horsf.),Tr.Linn.Soc.xiii.p. 190, 

 "Java" (1820). 



"S. Andaman, Feb. 4:2, iris yellow; legs and feet dark 

 green; soles of feet yellow." 



A single example. Does not differ from Indian individuals. 



62. Mareca gibberierons, S. Muller, Verhand. p. 159, 

 " Celebes " (1839-44) ; Walden, Tr. Zool. Soc. viii. p. 102. 



Querquedula andamanensis , Tytler, Ibis, 1867, p. 333. no. 89, 

 sine descr. 



? Mareca punctata, Cuv. : Ball, J. A. S. B. 1872, p. 290. 

 no. 62, " Andamans;" Str. Feath. i. p. 88. 



Mareca albogularis, Hume, Str. Feath. i. p. 303, "An- 

 damans" (1873). 



" S. Andaman, <$ $ , February ; iris brown ; bill plum- 

 beous ; legs and feet greenish : 5 , January. 



The collection contains three males and two females. One, 

 a female, is absolutely identical with an authentic Celebesian 

 example. While equal in dimensions with Timor examples, 

 they all somewhat exceed in size Celebesian individuals, which, 

 as is well known, are generally smaller than the races that 

 inhabit other areas. 



XXXVII. — Notices of recently published and forthcoming 

 Ornithological Works. By the Editor. 



Several important works bearing on Ornithology have been 

 published within the last few months, concerning which a few 

 words may not be unacceptable to our readers. 



' Lahore to Yarkand'* contains an account by Mr. Hume 

 of the birds collected during Mr. Forsyth's celebrated expe- 

 dition into Central Asia. Specimens of about 158 species 

 were obtained altogether ; but only 59 of these were collected 

 actually in Yarkand. They appear to have been well worked 



* Lahore to Yarkand. Incidents of the Route and Natural History of 

 the Countries traversed by the Expedition of 1870, under T. D. Forsyth, 

 Esq., C.B. By C4. Henderson, M.D., and A. O. Hume, C.B. London : 

 Reeve & Co., 1873. 1 vol. 8vo. 



