674: Recently published Ornithohgical Works. 



the only boon that he has conferred ou workers at the group. 

 He proceeds to review the authorities on the Order from the 

 earliest monograph by Latham to the latest by Dr. Godman, 

 and to shew the connexion of Latham's descriptions with the 

 Bauksian drawings and J. R. Forster's work, which is the 

 more necessary as the former does not seem to have had 

 access to Solander's notes. Moreover he reprints the original 

 descriptions of the majority of the species, gives us his 

 opinions on the various drawings by Banks' artists, and his 

 decisions on the proper names of the forms — in which we 

 may coincide or not as we choose. 



Mr. Mathews has derived great assistance from the col- 

 lections in the British Museum, at Tring, and elsewhere, 

 but still thinks that further material is needed from the 

 breeding-grounds of the species : his view — different to that 

 of most writers — being that they do not wander so far as 

 has been supposed, and that forms now considered identical 

 may prove different, when a long series is available. 



To begin with Vol. ii. pt. 1 : — Four divisions of the Order 

 are accepted, as in Salviu's volume of the British Museum 

 Catalogue, and in Dr. God man's Monograph ; but the Family 

 name Procellariidie is changed to Hydrobatidie, and Putiinidse 

 to Procellar'mhe. 



As regards genera, Garrodia and Pealea are included under 

 Oceanites, while Prucellaria is taken to contain Majaqueus 

 and Priofinus ; if Fre(jetta grallaria (of Vieillot ex Peronj is 

 kept separate the title Fregeitornis is proposed for it; and in 

 like manner Nesofregetta for F. ma'stissima of Salvin and 

 F. albigidaris of Finsch. 



A new species propounded is Paffinus couesi, for P. opistho- 

 melas auct., not of Coues ; and the following subspecies are 

 differentiated : Oceanites oceanicus exasperatus (Pacific form) ; 

 Pelagodronia marina dulcia (West Australian seas), P. ni. 

 Jwivei (East Australian seas), and P. m. maoriana (New 

 Zealand). No less than twenty pages are devoted to Puffimis 

 assimilis and its subspecies, which are distinguished as blue- 

 black and brown-black forms. Here two new subspecies are 

 proposed, P. a. kempi, P. a. tunneyi. Other new subspecies 



