110 Recent Ornithological Publications . 
new Sharp-tailed Grouse from Arctic America, described by Dr. 
Suckley in 1861 as P. Jcennicottii , is the true Tetrao phasianella 
of Linnseus, and must consequently bear the specific name ori¬ 
ginally imposed upon it by the illustrious Swede. The Sharp¬ 
tailed Grouse of the northern prairies of the United States, 
from Wisconsin to Oregon and Washington Territories, will in 
future stand as P. columbianus, being the Phasianus columbianus 
of Ord, in Guthrie’s Geography. The two forms appear to be 
easily distinguishable. 
We are indebted to Mr. Lawrence for early copies of two 
recent ornithological papers which he has contributed to the 
‘ Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York.’ In 
the first of these the author characterizes six new species of 
birds,—a Cuban Plover ( JEgialitis tenuirostris) allied to 2E. me- 
lodus, four Humming-birds, and a Brazilian Night-jar ( Stenopsis 
maculicaudus). Two of the Humming-birds (Thalurania luciae 
and Chlorostilbon insularis ) are from Tres Marias Islands, on the 
Pacific coast of Mexico (21° 30' N. L.). Three other species 
were obtained by Mr. Xantus (who collected the former also) in 
the same islands—namely, Florisuga mellivora , Cyanomyia guate- 
malensis, and Petasophora thalassina. Mr. Lawrence’s second 
paper is a “ third list ” of the extensive collections of birds made 
by Mr. M c Leannan on the Isthmus of Panama. There are 
many descriptions of novelties given, besides notes, corrections, 
and additions to the former articles on the same subject. A 
beautiful Dacnis, which Mr. Lawrence characterizes as D. ve- 
nusta, has been kindly promised to us for illustration in this 
Journal; and the Parrot, formerly considered as referable to 
Pionus hcematotis , is now discovered to be quite different from 
the Guatemalan bird, the male bearing rather a broad collar of 
bright scarlet. It is proposed to be called P. coccineicollaris. In 
this and his former papers on the same subject, Mr. Lawrence 
has done real good service to ornithology; for the Avi-fauna of 
Panama was previously quite unknown to naturalists. 
We have, in a previous Number, noticed some of the ornitho¬ 
logical articles in the eighth volume of the ‘ Proceedings of the 
