410 Recent Ornithological Publications. 
Mr. Gould has not referred to the notice, that some years since 
Mr. J. H. Gurney recorded (Zoologist, p. 4096) the capture of 
this bird in Sweden. Budytes citreoloides is B. citreola of Gould 
(olim) and Jerdon, but not of Pallas. Phyllopneuste tristis is 
distinct from P. brevirostris , Strickland. 
A reprint of the celebrated Treaty of Vienna concluded in 
1815, however carefully annotated, would scarcely be of any as¬ 
sistance to a student of the existing political state of Europe, 
and those who consult Mr. Newman's reprint of Montagu's 
( Ornithological Dictionary'* will, we fear, find it but a blind 
guide to the present state of the science to which it refers. Mon¬ 
tagu's ‘ Dictionary' appeared in 1802; the f Supplement' to it in 
1813. The exact date of publication of the c Appendix' we do not 
know; but, as its author died June 20th, 1815, it does not much 
matter for our purpose. Setting aside the consideration whether 
the whole work as an ornithological classic deserved reprinting 
again (a new edition of it having been published by Rennie in 
1833), what we have to do with is the question whether the 
additions made to it by Mr. Newman give an adequate summary 
of the progress in this particular branch of knowledge during 
the last half century. We regret that our answer must be a very 
decided negative. Perhaps, however, this may not have been 
the editor's scope. To judge by his preface, his chief object 
has been to add notices of the different species which have been 
recorded in certain channels of information as having occurred 
in the British Islands since Montagu's time. Now this would 
not seem a very hard task ; but we can assure our readers that it 
is very imperfectly performed. Eor nearly twenty-four years 
Mr. Newman has been editor of a magazine which is crowded 
with records respecting British Birds, in great part of very high 
value. Surely, when he set himself about his self-imposed labour, 
he might have been expected to exhaust what information he 
* A Dictionary of British Birds. Reprinted from Montagu’s Ornitho¬ 
logical Dictionary, and incorporating the additional species described by 
Selby; Yarrell, in all three editions; and in Natural-History Journals. 
Compiled and edited by Edward Newman, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. London : 
1866. 8vo, pp. 400. 
