200 Recent Ornithological Publications. 
ditional testimony to an improvement already made in our 
modern systematization of this group of birds. But Dr. Wein- 
land has already written an elaborate article on this subject 
in the second volume of Cabanis’ £ Journal fur Ornithologie 3 
(No. 12. p. Ixix.), and clearly shown the close connexion be¬ 
tween Trichoglossus and Lorius. Though we quite agree with 
Mr. Wallace as to the slight difference between the genera Lorius 
and Eos , we should prefer using the former name for the whole 
group as united^ it having been constituted by Vigors in 1826 
(Zool. Journ. ii. p. 400), long before Wagler’s Eos , and moreover 
with the important character “ lingua setosa ”■ duly noticed. 
A lately published addition to the British Museum Catalogues 
is that “ of the Mammalia and Birds of New Guinea,” by Dr. 
J. E. Gray and Mr. G. R. Gray. The list of birds is founded 
on the article “ On the Zoology of New Guinea,” published in 
the ‘ Proceedings of the Linnean Society’ for December 1857, and 
on the “ List of Birds obtained by Mr. Wallace in the Aru and 
Ke Islands,” by Mr. G. R. Gray, in the Proc. Zool. Soc. 1858 
(p. 169). The catalogue will be useful now that so much atten¬ 
tion is attracted towards this peculiar zoology by Mr. Wallace’s 
discoveries. One or two species, we think, are wrongly inserted; 
for instance, Eurystomus gularis and Tchitrea gaimardi are now 
well known to be African species *. Dacelo undulatus (p. 19) is 
most probably Dacelo gigas of Australia, though it is possible 
that it may be rediscovered as an independent species. Lorius 
cardinalis (p. 39) is the same as Eclectus linneei (see P. Bp. in 
Proc. Zool. Soc. 1849, p. 143). The true Geoffroius personatus 
(Psittacus personatus of the catalogue) is from Amboyna. The 
bird from New Guinea (Lobo) is, no doubt, Geoffroius aruensis , 
which differs from G. personatus principally in its smaller size. 
The f Edinburgh Philosophical Journal’ for April 1859 contains 
the second part of Mr. Andrew Murray’s “ Contributions to the 
Natural History of the Hudson’s Bay Territories.” A list of 
the birds is given, accompanied by many important remarks. 
Two species of Grouse are said to have been confounded under 
the name Tetrao obscurus. A supposed new Bernicle is named 
* Confer Verreaux in Rev. Zool. 1855, p.415, and Pucheran in Arch. 
Mus. Par. vii- 372. 
