﻿Recently 
  published 
  Ornithological 
  Works. 
  

  

  267 
  

  

  names, 
  which 
  the 
  author, 
  as 
  he 
  kindly 
  tells 
  us, 
  will 
  correct 
  

   in 
  subsequent 
  issues 
  of 
  the 
  work. 
  But 
  this 
  useful 
  sum- 
  

   mary 
  of 
  Mr. 
  Cory's 
  prolonged 
  labours 
  on 
  this 
  interesting 
  avi- 
  

   fauna 
  deserves 
  the 
  cordial 
  recognition 
  of 
  all 
  ornithologists. 
  

  

  50. 
  Godman 
  and 
  Salvin's 
  ' 
  Biologia 
  Centrali- 
  Americana.' 
  f 
  

  

  [Biologia 
  Centrali-Americana 
  ; 
  or, 
  Contributions 
  to 
  the 
  Knowledge 
  of 
  

   the 
  Fauna 
  and 
  Flora 
  of 
  Mexico 
  and 
  Central 
  America. 
  Edited 
  by 
  

   F. 
  DuCane 
  Godman 
  and 
  Osbert 
  Salvin. 
  (Zoology.) 
  Parts 
  CV. 
  & 
  CVI. 
  

   4to. 
  London 
  : 
  1892-93. 
  Published 
  for 
  the 
  Editors 
  by 
  R. 
  H, 
  Porter, 
  

   18 
  Princes 
  Street, 
  Cavendish 
  Square, 
  W.] 
  

  

  The 
  sixteen 
  pages 
  devoted 
  to 
  Birds 
  in 
  the 
  present 
  parts 
  of 
  

   the 
  ' 
  Biologia 
  ' 
  enable 
  the 
  authors 
  to 
  finish 
  their 
  account 
  of 
  

   the 
  Trochilidse 
  with 
  the 
  genera 
  Stellula, 
  Lophornis, 
  and 
  

   Prymnacantha, 
  and 
  to 
  commence 
  the 
  Cypselidse 
  with 
  Aero- 
  

   naut 
  es, 
  Panyptila, 
  and 
  Chcetura. 
  

  

  51. 
  Hartlaub 
  on 
  four 
  rare 
  Rails. 
  

  

  [Vier 
  seltene 
  Rallen. 
  Von 
  Dr. 
  G. 
  Hartlaub. 
  Abh. 
  naturw. 
  Ver. 
  

   Bremen, 
  xii. 
  p. 
  389.] 
  

  

  The 
  four 
  rare 
  Rails 
  which 
  our 
  much-esteemed 
  Foreign 
  

   Member 
  discourses 
  upon 
  are 
  Kittlitzia 
  (gen. 
  nov.) 
  monasa 
  

  

  * 
  Mr. 
  Cory 
  is, 
  we 
  believe, 
  in 
  error 
  in 
  making 
  Ballus 
  tnacidatus 
  a 
  species 
  

   peculiar 
  to 
  Cuba. 
  It 
  has 
  a 
  wide 
  range 
  in 
  South 
  America. 
  See 
  Sol. 
  

   et 
  Iluds. 
  Arg. 
  Orn. 
  ii. 
  p. 
  148. 
  

  

  t 
  For 
  last 
  notice 
  of 
  this 
  work 
  see 
  above, 
  p. 
  134. 
  

  

  