108 Recent Ornithological Publications. 
Dr. Lindermayer’s ‘ Vogel Griechenlands* , is a useful sum¬ 
mary of the observations of this well-known naturalist upon the 
birds of the country in which he has so long resided, separately 
reprinted from the third Yearly Report of the Natural-History 
Union of Passau. It contains notices of 345 species of birds 
considered as belonging to the fauna of Greece. Falco arcadius, 
described originally in the ‘Isis'’ of 1843 (a name which has 
met with much bad treatment from naturalists), Dr. Lindermayer 
still maintains to be that of a good species, quite distinct from 
F. eleonorce and F. concolor , the latter bird having been once only 
obtained by him in Greece, though Temminck says it is ‘common 9 
there. No fresh examples of this rare Falcon have been obtained 
since it was first described; but the younger Brehm is stated 
to have obtained specimens of it in Kordofan, so that it is, per¬ 
haps, a scarce occasional migrant to Europe. Dr. Lindermayer 
says nothing of Corvus monedula , var. collaris , which is, to say 
the least of it, a very noticeable climatal form of C. monedula , 
but considers Motacilla melanocephala (which is a regular summer- 
visitant) as a good species. Larus cachinnans of Pallas (“ a very 
common resident in Greece, breeding in numbers in the lagunes 
and desert islets ”) is probably the bird referred to, in a previous 
Number of this Journalf, as a variety of Larus argentatus. 
We are indebted to the courtesy of Herr Ferdinand Heine for 
an early copy of the first portion of the third part of the list of his 
extensive ornithological collection, called ‘ Museum Heineanum JP 
It contains an enumeration of the Humming-birds ( Trochilidce ) 
in the Heinean collection, numbering 183 species. Notes are 
likewise given concerning the other known species of each genus, 
among which we observe a fine new form from Veragua, desig¬ 
nated Panterpe insignis , of which we have had the pleasure of 
inspecting the types in the Berlin Museum. The careful elabo- 
* Die Vogel Griechenlands. Ein Beitrag zur Fauna dieses Landes von 
Dr. Ritter A. Lindermayer in Athen. Passau, 1860, 1 vol. 8vo, 188 pp. 
t ‘ Ibis,’ 1860, p. 355. 
+ Museum Heineanum. Verzeickniss der ornithologischen Sammlung 
des Oberamtmanns Ferdinand Heine, von Dr. Jean Cabanis und Ferdinand 
Heine, Stud. Phil., iii. Theil, die Schrillvogel enthaltend. Halberstadt, 
1860. 
