﻿Recently 
  published 
  Ornithological 
  Works. 
  453 
  

  

  on 
  99 
  birds 
  obtained 
  or 
  observed 
  during 
  his 
  excursion, 
  

   amongst 
  which 
  Conurus 
  enops, 
  Priotelus 
  temnnrus, 
  and 
  Todus 
  

   multicolor 
  were 
  " 
  common." 
  The 
  following 
  species 
  and 
  sub- 
  

   species 
  are 
  described 
  as 
  new 
  : 
  — 
  Rallus 
  longirostris 
  cubanus 
  

   and 
  Columbigallina 
  pnsserina 
  terrestris 
  from 
  Cuba 
  ; 
  Pitangus 
  

   jamaicensis 
  from 
  Jamaica; 
  and 
  Dendroica 
  petechia 
  flaviceps 
  

   from 
  the 
  Bahamas. 
  Scolecophagus 
  atro-violaceus 
  is 
  referred 
  

   to 
  a 
  new 
  genus 
  of 
  Icteridse 
  called 
  Ptiloxena, 
  from 
  the 
  peculiar 
  

   structure 
  of 
  its 
  contour-feathers. 
  The 
  concluding 
  section 
  of 
  

   the 
  paper 
  is 
  devoted 
  to 
  remarks 
  on 
  the 
  origin 
  of 
  West-Indian 
  

   Bird-life, 
  which 
  it 
  is 
  rather 
  difficult 
  to 
  follow 
  without 
  the 
  

   aid 
  of 
  a 
  map. 
  It 
  must 
  suffice 
  to 
  say 
  that 
  the 
  generally- 
  

   recognized 
  division 
  of 
  the 
  Antilles 
  into 
  two 
  groups, 
  the 
  

   Greater 
  and 
  Lesser 
  Antilles, 
  is 
  fully 
  recognized, 
  as 
  also 
  that 
  

   the 
  zoological 
  influence 
  of 
  the 
  Lesser 
  on 
  the 
  Greater 
  Antilles 
  

   is 
  of 
  comparatively 
  recent 
  date, 
  the 
  former 
  having 
  been 
  raised, 
  

   as 
  Prof. 
  A. 
  Agassiz 
  has 
  shown, 
  " 
  long 
  after 
  the 
  range 
  of 
  the 
  

   greater 
  West 
  Indian 
  Islands 
  existed.^' 
  The 
  Greater 
  Antilles 
  

   were 
  probably 
  connected 
  with 
  the 
  continent 
  by 
  land 
  extending 
  

   between 
  the 
  Mosquito 
  coast 
  and 
  Jamaica 
  at 
  a 
  time 
  when 
  

   sea-passages 
  between 
  the 
  Caribbean 
  Sea 
  and 
  the 
  Pacific 
  were 
  

   still 
  open, 
  and 
  when 
  the 
  representatives 
  of 
  some 
  12 
  families 
  

   now 
  characteristic 
  of 
  the 
  Central-American 
  Ornis 
  had 
  not 
  

   arrived 
  from 
  the 
  south. 
  For 
  this 
  reason 
  these 
  families 
  are 
  

   not 
  represented 
  in 
  the 
  Ornis 
  of 
  the 
  Greater 
  Antilles, 
  which 
  

   contains 
  only 
  survivors 
  of 
  the 
  forms 
  of 
  the 
  ancient 
  fauna 
  of 
  

   Central 
  America, 
  " 
  preserved 
  through 
  the 
  isolation 
  aflbrded 
  

   by 
  an 
  insular 
  life." 
  

  

  69. 
  Chapman 
  and 
  Buck's 
  'Wild 
  Spain.' 
  

  

  [Wild 
  Spain 
  (Espafia 
  Agreste). 
  Records 
  of 
  Sport 
  with 
  Rifle, 
  Rod, 
  

   and 
  Gun, 
  Natural 
  History 
  and 
  Exploration. 
  By 
  Abel 
  Chapman, 
  F.Z.S., 
  

   and 
  Walter 
  J. 
  Buck, 
  C.M.Z.S., 
  of 
  Jerez. 
  With 
  174 
  illustrations, 
  mostly 
  

   by 
  the 
  Authors. 
  Loudon 
  : 
  Guruey 
  and 
  Jackson, 
  1893.] 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Chapman's 
  name 
  is 
  already 
  well 
  known 
  to 
  readers 
  of 
  

   ' 
  The 
  Ibis,' 
  and 
  will 
  not 
  fail 
  to 
  call 
  immediate 
  attention 
  to 
  

   the 
  present 
  volume, 
  in 
  which 
  he 
  and 
  his 
  coadjutor, 
  Mr. 
  Buck, 
  

   furnish 
  us 
  with 
  a 
  large 
  quantity 
  of 
  most 
  interesting 
  informa- 
  

  

  