214 Recent Ornithological Publications . 
Introduction Mr. Elliot rejects Lag opus persicus as a species, 
and, as we also think rightly, he considers L. rupestris to in¬ 
clude the so-called L. americanus of Audubon, the L. reinhardti 
and L. grcenlandicus of Brehm, and the L. islandorum of Faber. 
Whether L. hyperboreus (or, as we prefer to term it, L. hemileu- 
curus) should not also be referred to this species, is a point on 
which we have before stated our opinion (Ibis, 1865, p. 504) ; 
but counting it, as well as L. scoticus, we find that, out of the 
twenty-two supposed species of Grouse, fourteen inhabit the New 
World, while ten occur in the Old World, and only two are 
common to both regions : and, again, taking the genera in which 
our author disposes them, we ha vefive peculiar to the Nearctic 
Region, three to the Palsearctic, and two common to both; so 
that, if there be any truth in Mr. Wallace's theory, Grouse have 
had their origin in America. While congratulating our good 
friend on the completion of this work, we are happy to announce 
that he has another monograph in a forward state of prepara¬ 
tion, the subject of which is the beautiful family of Phasianidce. 
In the ‘ Annals' of the New York Lyceum of Natural History 
for 1865 Mr. Lawrence has three papers, in the course of which 
he describes as new a dozen birds from Central America. These 
are Spermophila hicksi and S. fortipes from Panama, S. badii- 
ventris from Greytown, and S. collaris from Chiriqui, Formici- 
vora schisticolor , Mitrephorus aurantiiventris , and Elainea frantzii 
from Costa Rica, besides two other species of the last-named 
genus from Chiriqui, which the author calls respectively E. chi - 
riquensis and E. semiflava , with Thryothorus brunneus, Synallaxis 
nigrifumosa, and Thamnophilus hollandi from Greytown. The 
papers also contain an enumeration of, with a few remarks on, 
two collections from Chiriqui and Greytown, the first, containing 
thirty-nine species, formed by Mr. Frederick Hicks, and the 
second, containing sixty-one species, formed by Mr. H. E. 
Holland. 
