102 Recent Ornithological Publications. 
in the Aru and Ke Islands, with descriptions of new species 
(p.169). A Tanysiptera, a Ptilorhynchus , five Parrots*, and as 
many splendid Pigeons, are amongst Mr. Wallace’s most brilliant 
discoveries, as here recorded. A useful table appended gives 
the distribution of the species in New Guinea, the Aru and Ke 
Islands, the Louisiade Archipelago, Waigiou, Timor-laut, North¬ 
ern Australia, and Torres Straits. M. Meves’ communication 
(p. 199) is on the humming-noise of some of the Snipes, which 
it now said to be produced by the peculiarly-shaped outer tail- 
feathers. Mr. Sclater's papers are on the birds collected by 
Mr. Bridges in California (p. 1); on a collection of birds from 
the Bio Napo (p. 57); on some birds from Southern Mexico 
(p. 95) ; on new or little-known Accipitres from the Norwich Mu¬ 
seum (p. 128); a Synopsis of the Formicariidce (pp. 202, 232 
and 272) ; on the Magellanic Goose (p. 289); on newTanagers 
(p. 293); on a collection of birds from Oaxaca (p. 294) ; on a 
new Buteo (p. 356); and on birds collected by Capt. Taylor in 
Honduras (p. 356). Among the birds from the Bio Napo, are 
two very beautiful new forms of Tanagridse, Euchcetes coccineus 
and Creurgops verticalis (pi. 132). Dr. Hartlaub describes “ new 
species of birds from Western Africa in the Collection of the 
British Museum” (p. 291). Dr. J. E. Gray makes remarks on 
the eggs of the new Cassowary (C. bennettii ), of which two some¬ 
what dissimilar examples are in the British Museum (p. 271). 
Dr. Krefft gives an interesting notice on the habits and nesting 
of Pomatorhinus ruficeps , Hartlaub, of Australia. 
The f Annals of Natural History ) for the year 1858, besides 
giving most of the important papers read before the Zoological 
Society, contain (No. 10)—“ Description of a new Grass-finch 
from New Caledonia,” by John Macgillivray; (No. 12) a paper 
“ On a peculiar process attached to the Ischium in Erucivores,” 
by T. C. Eyton; and the “ Description of a new species of 
bird from Palestine,” by P. L. Sclater. Out of the many species 
of birds in New Caledonia, Mr. Macgillivray has unfortunately 
selected one of the few, which are already known to the scientific 
world, to describe as new. As Dr. Hartlaub has shown in a 
* We must, however, express a doubt of the distinctness of Chalcopsitta 
rubrifrons from C. scintillata (Temm.). 
