338 Recent Ornithological Publications. 



Circus jardinii. 

 Buteo, sp. indeterm. 

 CoUocalia troglodytes. 

 Collocalia, sp. indeterm. 

 Coturuix, sp. indeterm. 



Porphyrio melanotus. 

 Podiceps, sp. indeterm. 

 Sula parva. 

 Phaeton phBenicurus. 

 Anas, sp. indeterm. 



These additions, however, are sufficient to show how complete 

 were the materials on which the paper of MM. Verreaux and 

 Des Murs was founded; for it will be perceived that not one 

 species of true Passeres is included among them. The skins 

 brought home by M. Jouau have been divided between the 

 Museums of Paris and Cherbourg ; so that any of our friends 

 who may chance to attend the concourse of iron-clads announced 

 to take place this summer at the latter port may have the 

 opportunity of seeing some of them. M. Jouan's other contii- 

 butions to ornithology consist of " Notes sur quelques animaux 

 observes a la Nouvelle Caledonie pendant les annees 1861 et 

 1862'^ (pp. 93-100), which are better worked up in the paper 

 we have already noticed, " Notes sur quelques animaux observes 

 en pleine mer dans F Ocean Pacifique, et pendant une traversee 

 d'Australie en Europe ^^ (pp. 188-196), which may be usefully 

 compared with the more elaborate article by Captain Hutton 

 contained in our present number, and a " Note sur le Casoar de 

 Nouvelle-Bretagne ^' — Casuarius hennetti (pp. 322-327). We 

 congratulate the French navy on numbering among their officers 

 a naturalist so intelligent and so enthusiastic as Captain Jouan. 

 3. Italian. 

 Dr. Tommaso Salvadori has obligingly forwarded to us copies 

 of two papers recently communicated by him, the one to the 

 Italian Society of Natural Sciences, the other to the Royal 

 Academy of Sciences of Turin. In the first, which was read at 

 the meeting of the 4th September last, the author makes some 

 observations on new or little-known birds in the Turin Museum, 

 and characterizes seven previously undescribed species. Five of 

 these are from Brazil, namely, Myiobius rufescens (resembling 

 M. navius, but smaller), Rhynchocyclus cerviniventris, Myrmo- 

 therula minor (allied to M. hrevicauda of Swainson), Myrmeciza 

 marginata (intermediate in some characters between ikf. ruficauda 

 and M. hemimelana) and Hypocnemis (?) stria tiventr is, which 

 last has the typical form of that genus, but wants the concealed 



