220 Recent Ornithological Publications. 



XXI. — Recent Ornithological Publications. 

 1. English. 

 In the course of the past year, Mr. Gould has published the 

 Sixteenth part of his ' Birds of Asia/ which he has solely de- 

 voted to the illustration of the ornithology of the island of 

 Formosa ; where, as the readers of this journal already know, 

 Mr. Swinhoe has been so successfully working. We only wish 

 that a portion of that gentleman's zeal for the promotion of 

 Natural History animated other members of Her Majesty's 

 Consular Service ; though it is not to be expected that many of 

 them would find a field so rich and so unexplored as our friend 

 has done in the " Beautiful " island where he performs his official 

 duties. Mr. Swinhoe has, in a former volume of the ' Ibis,' so 

 well described the characteristic features of Formosan Ornithology, 

 that we need only refer to his three masterly articles on that 

 subject (Ibis, 1863, pp. 198, 250, and 377).' Mr. Gould gives 

 figures of the following sixteen birds : — 



Urocissa cserulea. 

 Euplocomus swinhoii. 

 Bambusicola sonorivox. 

 Pomatorhinus erythvocnemis. 

 Gecinus tancola. 

 Picus insularis. 

 Garrulax ruficeps. 

 poecilorhyncha. 



Myiophoneus insularis. 

 Megalsema nuchalis. 

 Pericrocotus griseogularis. 

 Garrulus taivanus. 

 Numenius rufescens. 

 Hypsipetes nigerrima. 

 Parus castaneoventris. 

 Alcippe brunnea. 



All these species were described by Mr. Gould in the Zoolo- 

 gical Society's ' Proceedings ' for 1862 (pp. 280-286), but they 

 were all discovered by Mr. Swinhoe's unassisted labours. 



It is not often that we are favoured with an ornithological 

 paper in the publications of the Linnean Society. Since the 

 appearance, some seven or eight years ago, of that remarkable 

 one on the " Geographical Distribution of the class Aves " — the 

 truth of the principles enunciated in which has been so unani- 

 mously admitted, and which has placed the important branch 

 of the science to which it related on a basis as sure as it was 

 novel — we can hardly call any others to mind. Dr. John Shortt's 

 " Account of a Heronry and Breeding-place of other Water-birds 



