Recently j)ublished Ornithological Works. 153 



number named by earlier authorities, and reduces others 

 from species to subspecies ; but for these our readers must 

 consult the pages themselves. The accounts of the habits, 

 nests, and eggs are, moreover, full and interesting. We 

 notice, among other details, that Phoneus is accepted as a 

 generic title for the Woodchat group, Tchagra of Lesson for 

 TelepJionus of Swaiuson, Teluphuras of Swainson for FeUcinius 

 of Boie, while the Vang a of South Madagascar is elevated to 

 specific rank as V. griseipedus, sp. n. 



Eight excellent plates have been drawn by Gronvold for 

 this part. 



M^aterliouse on new Generic JSames. 



[ludex Zoologicus, No. II., compiled for the Zoological Society of 

 London by Charles Owen Waterhouse, I.8.O., and edited by David 

 Sharp, M.A., F.E.S. Pp. vi + 324. London (Zoological Society), 1912. 



8vo.] 



This laborious but useful compilation contains a complete 

 list of names of new genera and subgenera proposed for use 

 in Zoology for the years 1901-1910 inclusive ; the greater 

 number of these are to be found in the annual volumes of the 

 ' Zoological Record ' and the ' International Catalogue of 

 Scientific Literature/ now happily one so far as Zoology is 

 concerned. There are also included names which have 

 escaped the hawk-like eyes of the Recorders, and others 

 which have been accidentally omitted from previous 

 " noraenclators." 



The editor reckons that up to the end of 1910 some 

 140^000 names for genera have been used in Zoology. It 

 is very evident that great care must be taken by those 

 naturalists who are proposing new generic names not to 

 trespass on the 140,000 names already used, and it is there- 

 fore higbly desirable that such a list as this should be issued 

 from time to time. We may add that the price of the 

 Avork is 155. to the public and 125. Qd. to Fellows of the 

 Zoological Society, at whose expense the volume is pub- 

 lished. 



