112 Recently published Ornithological Works. 
autlior^s 1. harmandi is identified with Mr. Hnme^s Geronticus 
davisoni, and placed as Graptocephalus davisoni. The third 
genus proposed is Lampribis, with L. olivacea, Du Bus^ as its 
type; this species is also figured (pi. li.). 
Before leaviug the genera we have one point to notice; 
and that is the application of the name Falcinellus by both 
authors^ who attribute the first use of it to Bechstein (1802). 
A reference to Bechstein^s work shows that that author called 
the Glossy Ibis Numenius falcinellus, and in no way em¬ 
ployed the latter title in a generic sense. Failing Falcinellusy 
Plegadis, Kaup (Skizz. Entw. Gesch. p. 82^ 1829) appears to 
stand next in order of date; and thus Plegadis falcinellus 
(L.) would be the correct name for the Glossy Ibis. As 
regards the synonyms of this species^ Dr. Beichenow shows 
that Scolopax rufa, Scopoli, is an blder title than Numenius 
igneus of Gmelin (Nov. Comm. Petr. 1771), and of course than 
Numenius igneus of the ^ Systema Naturae^ of 1788, as Mr. 
Elliot gives it. Both authors are, we believe, right in re¬ 
ferring the Tringa autumnalis, Hasselq., to this bird; and 
were it not that Hasselquist is not strictly binomial in his 
nomenclature, a claim might be set up for the adoption of 
auturnnalis as the specific name of the Glossy Ibis, as the 
English edition of HasselquisFs ^ Travels ^ bears the date of 
1766, thus coming within the recognized pale. 
We think Mr. Elliot in error in uniting the Australian 
Ibis strictipennis with I. (ethiopica ; for not only does geo¬ 
graphy reject such a view, but living birds in the Zoological 
Society's Gardens show characters which enable the two spe¬ 
cies to be recognized without fail, even by ordinary observers. 
Nor can we indorse Mr. Elliotts reasoning when he argues 
that a character possessed by a species only during the 
breeding-season, and not retained throughout the year, must 
therefore be considered as of no specific value. 
Mr. Elliot gives us under each species a profusion of 
references, those under Falcinellus igneus filling up a page 
and a half. Still we miss some of the most important—such 
standard works as BurmeisteFs ^ Systematische IJebersichV 
Pelzeln^s ^Ornithologie Brasiliens,^ and other books of equal 
