200 Recent Ornithological Publications. 
(the son of one of the companions of Pizarroand Almagro) was, 
however, acquainted with this bird, and says it is called Parri- 
huana. In the desert of Atacama it bears the abbreviated name 
Parrina, and is without doubt the “ Red-breasted Plamingo ” of 
which Mr. Bollaert speaks in his description of the province of 
Tarapaca. It breeds on the elevated lakes of the Andes, and its 
eggs are brought for sale to the market of Atacama in December. 
At this time (January 19th) the females were incubating.” 
Of the f Journal fur Ornithologies we have received numbers 
3, 4, and 5 for the past year. Dr. Hartlaub's “ Systematic 
Review of the Birds of Madagascar ” is completed in the third 
number, and has been since issued in a separate form, which we 
shall notice in our next Number. The same number contains 
original articles by Dr. Cabanis on three African Thrushes, which 
he proposes to form into a group, to be called Psophocichla; 
and by Ferd. Heine on two new species of Alcedinidce from the 
Pacific islands, and on a new Xiphocolaptes, belonging to the 
typical section of the genus. 
In the 4th number of the same Journal is a very important 
article by Professor Burmeister, being a systematic list of the 
birds observed and collected by him during his recent expedition 
to South America. The three stations chosen by Professor 
Burmeister for his observations (at each of which he remained, 
we believe, for about a year) were Parana, Mendoza, and Tucuman, 
all in the Argentine Republic. Of these, the latter was in a 
district far less known to naturalists than the two former, and, as 
might have been expected, the most striking novelties in Professor 
Burmeister* s list were met with in this locality. The total number 
of species enumerated in Professor BurmeisteFs list is 261, of 
which no less than 23 are considered to be new* to science. 
Although we believe Professor Burmeister is preparing to 
publish a work containing the results of his travels, and will, no 
* Falco punctipennis, however, is, we suspect, the bird already described 
by Dr. Kaup (P. Z. S. 1851, p. 43) as Harpagus circumcinctus; and Conurus 
brunniceps, as we have ascertained by examination of a typical specimen 
received from Prof. Burmeister by Mr. Salvin, is Conurus aymara (d’Orb.),- 
figured in Souance’s unfinished work on Parrots, pi. 23. 
