340 Recent Oi-nithological Publications. 



Jbirds of North-Eastern and Central Africa; but when these are 

 done with, there remain few communications on any but Palse- 

 arctic species. The most note-worthy of these exceptional papers 

 is the commencement of a monograph of Campephagida by Dr. 

 Hartlaub, containing descriptions of the species of Graucalus 

 and Pteropodocys, which is worked out in the usual admirable 

 manner of that learned author. Besides thisj we have trans- 

 lations of Dr. Leith Adam's paper on the birds of Egypt and 

 Nubia, which appeared in the 'Ibis' for last year (we hope, by 

 the way, that Mr. S. S. Alien's remarks on this paper will also 

 achieve the like honour), of Herr von Rosenberg's article on the 

 ornithology of New Guinea, from the ' Naturkundig Tijdschrift 

 voor Nederlandsch Indie,' and, curiously enough, a re-transla- 

 tion, from the last volume of the ' Ibis,' of Dr. Haast's inter- 

 esting observations on the singular and nearly extinct Ground- 

 Parrot of New Zealand {Strigops habroptilus) , which was origi- 

 nally published in the Vienna Transactions. Professor Peters's 

 description of the new genus (allied to Bessonornis) and species, 

 Cichladusa arquata, from Zambesia, is also inserted from the 

 monthly Report of the Berlin Academy. Herr Otto Finsch 

 characterizes three new birds — Chrysotis nattereri, brought from 

 Brazil by the lamented naturalist whose name it is in future to 

 bear, Eos wallacii, from Waigiou, previously mentioned (P. Z. S., 

 1861, p. 431) by Mr. G. R. Gray as E. cochinchinensis, var., 

 and Pyrrhulauda modesta from the Canaries -, while Drs. Hart- 

 laub and Cabanis respectively describe Ptilinopus ccesarinus from 

 the Feejees and Conurus heinii from Bogota. To the latter 

 species Gnathosittaca is assigned as a sub-generic appellation. 



Among the articles relating to the Palsearctic region, the 

 waifs and strays of the great irruption of Syrrhaptes paradoxus 

 still continue to occupy the attention of German ornithologists ; 

 but no new information of importance appears to have been 

 obtained. There can be no doubt that those ill-used voyagers 

 entirely failed to establish themselves in Europe. The last re- 

 corded occurrence of a Pallas's Sand-Grouse that we can find is 

 by Dr. Opel, who, writing on the 30th July, 1864, states (J.f. O. 

 1864, p. 312) that a live example, which had flown against the 

 telegraph-wires near Plauen, in Saxony, was sent to the Zoolo- 



