456 Recently published Ornithological Works. 
In his treatment of the species of the genus Leptoptila 
(p. 158 et seqq .) Prof. Schlegel has fallen into great confu¬ 
sion. The bird called L.jamaicensis is probably L. verreauxi - 
The true L. jamaicensis, probably the bird here called L. 
albifrons, is purely Antillean, whereas L. verreauxi is found 
in the northern portions of South America and as far north 
as Costa Pica, being replaced in Guatemala by L. albifrons 
(not the bird here so called). The bird called L. cassini, from 
Mexico (Guatemala?), is L. cerviniventris, as Prof. Schlegel 
would at once have seen had he possessed specimens from 
Panama. The genus Geotrygon is suppressed, and the species 
usually included in it are placed in Starnoenas , a name solely 
applicable to S. cyanocephala. This species alone, amongst 
American Pigeons, has reticulated tarsi, like Goura ! 
The last portion of this livraison contains a review of the 
Birds of Prey. We notice (p. 14) that WaglePs name Scops 
trichopsis is placed as a synonym of S. flammeola ! this is quite 
wrong (cf. antea , p. 314). The Kestrel of the Island of St. 
Vincent, of the Cape-Verd group, is characterized under the 
name of Falco neglectus; this Mr. Sharpe (Cat. B. i. p. 428) 
considers to be only a dark race of F. tinnunculus. 
Circus poliopterus (p. 49), treated as a separate species, is 
the female of C. cinereus. Astur hensti (p. 62) is described 
as a new species from Madagascar; its nearest ally appears 
to be A. palumbarius. 
The Sparrow-hawk from Bogota, called (p. 70) Nisus ery- 
throcnemius, must surely be A. ventralis. This, too, would 
have been apparent to Prof. Schlegel had he possessed Bra¬ 
zilian specimens. 
All the North-American Buzzards except B. lineatus and 
B. pennsylvanicus are united to B. borealis (p. 107). These 
birds have been carefully worked out by Mr. Bidgway (N. Am. 
B. iii. p. 244 et seq.), whose views, by far the most correct, we 
believe, that have yet been published, differ widely from 
those of Professor Schlegel. 
The appendix to Mr. Brenchley's f Cruise of the Curajoa’* 
* Jottings during the Cruise of II.M.S. ( Cura$oa ’ among the South- 
Sea Islands in 1865. By Julius Brenchley, M.A. Large 8vo, pp. 474. 
London: 1873. 
