AVES* 
61 
[See Falconidm, FormicariidcB, Cotingid<B, Tyrannidcs, Mnio~ 
tiltidoi, TanagridcBj and Icterida. Cf. ibis^ 1870, p. 280.] 
Pelzeln, August von. Zur Ornithologie Brasiliens. Besul- 
tate von Johann Natterers Reisen in den Jahren 1817 bis 
1835. II. Abtheilung. Wien : 1869. 8vo, pp. 69-188, 
xxxiii-xliii. 
Some mistakes were made in our notice of the contents of 
the first part of this work last year. Instead of about 100 species 
being therein included as there (Zool. Rec. v. p. 55) stated, the 
number was 374 ; and Mr. Sclater’s prior description of some 
species of Caprimulgidm then said [tom. cit. p. 74) to have been 
ignored was duly mentioned (p. 49, note) as since pointed out 
by the author and acknowledged by ourselves (Ibis, 1870, p. 296) . 
In the second part 371 species are included, whereof 71 (!) are 
described as new, one, however, not having been discovered by 
Nattcrcr and one not being Brazilian. They will be noticed 
under Formic ariidoi (35), Dendrocolaptida (I), Cotingid<B (7), 
VirconidcR (2), Tyramndac (25), and Mniotiliidm — though these 
are not in every case the groups to which the author refers 
them. The new or little-known species are (as before) de- 
scribed in detail after the catalogue of the collection ; and then 
follows a continuation of the list showing their geographical dis- 
tribution throughout Brazil. Impressed as we are with the 
value of this work and with the extraordinary amount of labour 
which the author has bestoAvcd on his task of erecting a durable 
monument of Natterer’s zeal, we confess that the distinction 
between the previously described and undescribed species is 
hardly made plain enough, and there was certainly no need to 
print the manuscript names applied to the former by this great 
traveller. The work is indispensable to all students of South- 
American Ornithology. 
Salvin, Osbert. Notes on Mr. Lawrence^s List of Costa- Rica 
Birds. Ibis, 1869, pp. 310-319. 
This article is on that part of Mr. Lawrenee^s paper which 
we noticed last year (Zool. Rec. v. p. 55), and carefully scruti- 
nizes both the evidence on which be has admitted to or omitted 
from his list certain species and the validity of others, be- 
sides making several suggestions as to their nomenclature. 
From that list Mr. Salvin rejects 14 species, while he adds 13 
others, thus leaving it with 473 Land-birds,^^ as nearly as pos- 
sible, with regard to numbers, where he found it. [See also 
Lawrence, G. N.] 
. [See Sclater, P. L., and Salvin> Osbert.] 
ScLATER, P. L. On the Birds of the Vicinity of Lima. With 
notes on their Habits by Professor W. Nation. Part III. 
Proc. Zool. Soc. 1869, pp. 146-148, pi. xii. 
