598 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



Dr. Reiser commences the present volume with a narrative 

 of his three collecting-tours in Greece, in the course of which 

 he visited nearly every part of that famous land and its 

 islands, except Crete, which still remains almost ornitbo- 

 logically unknown. This is followed by a resume of the 

 previous literature on the subject, and by a complete list of 

 the 312 species of Grecian Birds now known, in which the 

 vernacular name in modern Greek and the first observer 

 of each species in Greece are given. The main portion, 

 or " Specieller Teil," of this volume of the ' Ornis Balcanica,' 

 however, is devoted to a series of notes on the birds of 

 Greece and its Islands, arranged in systematic order and 

 occupying some 450 pages, which let in a flood of light upon 

 the subject, and demand the careful attention of all students 

 of European Ornithology. 



Dr. Reiser, we are pleased to observe, does not find it 

 necessary to make many new " subspecies," and employs 

 trinomials only in exceptional cases. Amongst his many 

 most interesting observations, we may notice the breeding 

 of the Snow-Finch (Montifringilla nivalis) on Mount Var- 

 dusia, in Phthiotis, which has been already alluded to in 

 this journal (see ' Ibis/ 1904, p. 226), and his explanations 

 concerning Parus htgubris grcecus (a southern form of 

 P. lugubris) and Dendrocopus medius sancti-johannis, of both 

 of which good coloured figures are given. A chart of Greece 

 and its Islands, shewing Dr. Reiser's routes during his three 

 expeditions, concludes this excellent volume, which is cer- 

 tainly one of the most important contributions that have 

 been made for many years to our knowledge of Palasarctic 

 Ornithology. 



95. Ridgway on new Genera and Species. > 



[New Genera of Tymnnidse and Turdidse, and new Forms of Tanagiidse 

 and Turdidse. By Robert Ridgway. Proc. Biol. Soc.Washington, xviii. 

 P.211.J 



Platytriccus is a new generic name for Platyrhynchus 

 cancroma and other species of that genus which Mr. Ridgway 

 separates from P. rostratus. Haplocichla, gen. nov., is based 



