Recent Ornithological Publications. 457 
II. French Publications. 
The numbers of the ‘ Revue et Magasin de Zoologie' for 
May, June, and July contain several articles on Ornithology. 
In M. 0. Des Murs' “ Notes sur les dernieres especes de Cepha- 
lopteres,'' an attempt is made to prove that the new and striking- 
species of this singular genus described in our first Number 
(p. 114), as also Mr. Gould's C. glabricollis, are nothing more 
than different forms of the ordinary species, of which the latter 
is regarded as the adult male! M. Des Murs appears to be 
quite unaware that, however badly acquainted the naturalists of 
France may be with the adult state of C. ornatus, we in England 
know it perfectly well, from the numerous fine-plumaged speci¬ 
mens transmitted to this country by Mr. Hauxwell, and, more 
recently, by Mr. Bates, from the Amazon and Ucayali. He also 
seems to have quite overlooked Mr. Wallace's account of the 
habits of this bird as observed by himself on the Amazons and 
Rio Negro (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1850, p. 206), published long before 
M. de Castelnau's imperfect notice, which he regards as the 
earliest authority on this subject. It would seem almost useless 
to point out the great difference in the geographical distribution 
of the three species of Cephalopterus in a case where the locality 
of Mr. Fraser's bird (Pallatanga, at the western base of the 
Andes of Ecuador) is considered to be the same as the Yungas 
of Bolivia ! For us, however, the mere fact of these birds being 
found upon opposite sides of the Andes, at some thousands of 
be employed. As a generic name—the form being apparently different 
from any previously characterized among the Icteridce —we propose that 
of Nesopsar; and the species will therefore stand as Nesopsar niger- 
rimus. (P.L.S.) 
Nesopsar, gen. nov. Rostrum rectum, capite vix brevius, subquadra- 
tum, compressum, apice acuto, mesorhinio lato et piano, verticem versus 
extenso : alse breves, remige secunda, tertia et quarta sequalibus et longis- 
simis, quinta his paulo breviore sed primam excedente : cauda modica, qua- 
drata ; pedes validiusculi, tarsis brevibus, ungue postico fortiore. 
Typus et sp. unica N. nigerrimus. 
S Niger unicolor, seneo paulum splendens : rostro et pedibus niger- 
rimis : long, tota 8’0, alae 4i, caudae 2-8, rostri a fronte 1*1. 
$ Mari similis, sed paulo minor. 
Hab. in ins. Jamaica. 
Mus. Bremensi et P.L.S. 
