﻿Recently 
  published 
  Ornithological 
  Works. 
  273 
  

  

  Ann. 
  I. 
  Hist. 
  -Nat. 
  p. 
  77 
  (1769). 
  This 
  takes 
  two 
  years' 
  pre- 
  

   cedence 
  over 
  fluviatiiis 
  of 
  Tunstall, 
  which 
  is 
  moreover 
  (in 
  

   Dr. 
  Stejneger^s 
  opinion) 
  a 
  " 
  nomen 
  nudum/'* 
  

  

  Five 
  specimens 
  of 
  Eurynorhynchus 
  pi/pno'us 
  yveve 
  obtained 
  

   at 
  Hakodadi 
  during 
  the 
  " 
  fall 
  migration 
  '' 
  of 
  1884-5 
  and 
  '86. 
  

  

  Dr. 
  Stejneger 
  proposes 
  to 
  change 
  the 
  name 
  of 
  the 
  large 
  

   Himalayan 
  Ceryle 
  from 
  Ceryle 
  guttata 
  to 
  Ceryle 
  guttulata, 
  

   " 
  because 
  Alcedo 
  guttata 
  of 
  Vigors 
  (1831) 
  is 
  preoccupied 
  by 
  

   Alcedu 
  guttata 
  of 
  Boddaert 
  (1783) 
  .•" 
  He 
  regards 
  Ceryle 
  

   lugubris 
  of 
  Japan 
  as 
  distinct. 
  

  

  A 
  fine 
  pair 
  of 
  Picas 
  martins 
  are 
  in 
  Mr. 
  Henson's 
  collection. 
  

   They 
  are 
  of 
  an 
  intense 
  blacky 
  and 
  the 
  bill 
  is 
  somewhat 
  larger 
  

   than 
  in 
  European 
  specimens. 
  [Cf. 
  Blakiston, 
  Ibis^ 
  1862, 
  

   p. 
  325.) 
  

  

  The 
  Japanese 
  Wagtails 
  are 
  discussed 
  at 
  great 
  length, 
  and 
  

   Motacilla 
  lugens, 
  Kittlitz, 
  is 
  distinguished 
  from 
  M. 
  grandis, 
  

   Sharpe. 
  

  

  The 
  generic 
  term 
  Cichloselys 
  of 
  Bonaparte 
  is 
  proposed 
  to 
  

   be 
  limited 
  to 
  Tardus 
  sibiricus, 
  which 
  is 
  considered 
  to 
  be 
  

   generically 
  distinct 
  from 
  Geocichla, 
  though 
  closely 
  allied. 
  

  

  The 
  new 
  generic 
  term 
  Urophlexis 
  is 
  substituted 
  for 
  Uro- 
  

   sphena, 
  " 
  preoccupied 
  " 
  — 
  it 
  is 
  not 
  stated 
  where 
  or 
  how. 
  

  

  Parus 
  hensoni 
  of 
  Yezo 
  is 
  described 
  as 
  a 
  new 
  Tit 
  of 
  the 
  

   palustris 
  group, 
  while 
  the 
  Parus 
  jnponicus 
  of 
  Seebohm, 
  from 
  

   Hondo, 
  is 
  proposed 
  to 
  be 
  called 
  Parus 
  seebohmi. 
  There 
  are 
  

   thus 
  three 
  forms 
  of 
  the 
  subgenus 
  Poecile 
  in 
  Japan. 
  

  

  Hypsipetes 
  amaurotis 
  hensoni 
  is 
  a 
  new 
  subspecies 
  from 
  Yezo. 
  

  

  63. 
  Thomson's 
  ' 
  British 
  New 
  Chiinea.' 
  

  

  [British 
  New 
  Guinea. 
  By 
  J. 
  P. 
  Thomson, 
  F.R.S.G.S. 
  London 
  : 
  

   1892.] 
  

  

  This 
  book 
  appears 
  to 
  have 
  been 
  written 
  principally 
  for 
  the 
  

   laudification 
  of 
  Sir 
  William 
  Macgregor, 
  the 
  Administrator 
  

   of 
  British 
  New 
  Guinea, 
  who, 
  however, 
  quite 
  deserves 
  all 
  the 
  

   attentions 
  paid 
  to 
  him. 
  It 
  is 
  useful 
  to 
  the 
  student 
  of 
  the 
  

   Papuan 
  avifauna, 
  as 
  containing 
  a 
  quantity 
  of 
  geographical 
  

  

  * 
  [This 
  is 
  not 
  quite 
  the 
  case, 
  in 
  my 
  opinion, 
  as 
  tlie 
  EugHsh 
  and 
  French 
  

   names 
  identify 
  it 
  witliout 
  a 
  doubt. 
  — 
  P. 
  L. 
  S.] 
  

  

  