122 Recently published Ornithological Works. 
Straits. Of these 136 are enumerated, amongst which are 
described, as new, Podargus gouldi from the Gulf of Carpen¬ 
taria, Pachycephala robust a from Cape York, Colluricincla 
superciliosa from Cape Grenville, Gerygone simplex from the 
Gulf of Carpentaria, Sericornis brunneopygius from Cape 
York, Zoster ops ramsayi from Palm Island, Z. fiavogularis 
from Cape Grenville and the adjacent islands, Megapodius 
assimilis from Dungeness and Bet Islands, Sterna nigrifrons 
from Warrior Reef, and Sternula inconspicua from Cape York. 
6. Rowley’s ‘ Ornithological Miscellany / 
[Ornithological Miscellany. Edited by George Dawson Rowley, M.A., 
F.L.S., E.Z.S., Member of the British Ornithologists’ Union. 4to. Lon¬ 
don : Triibner & Co. Part III. January 1876; Part IY. May 1876; Part 
V. October 1876.] 
Of this most appropriately named work, which has already 
been noticed in ‘The Ibis* (1875, pp. 261, 509), three parts 
have been issued during the past year, graced with many 
excellent plates of ornithic rarities. Messrs. Pinsch, Salvin, 
Sharpe, and A. Newton have been invited to contribute to 
its pages ; and all ornithologists must be grateful to Mr. Row- 
ley for the liberality with which he supplies illustrations to 
the various memoirs. Those of the Fijian novelties ( Tricho - 
glossus aureocinctus , Myiagra cceruleo-capilla, &c.) recently 
discovered by Mr. E. L. Layard are specially acceptable; and 
we trust Mr. Rowley will not fail to continue them. 
7. Blanford’s c Zoology of Eastern Persia 
[Eastern Persia, an account of the Journeys of the Persian Boundary 
Commission 1870-71-72. Yol. II. The Zoology and Geology, by W. T. 
Blanford, A.R.S.M., F.R.S. 8vo. London: 1876. (Macmillan & Co.)] 
All ornithologists will, we are sure, accord a glad welcome 
to Mr. Blanfofos volume on the zoology and geology of Persia, 
which is quite worthy of the high reputation of the author, 
and fills up what has been long an important void in our 
science. Looking to the geographical position of Persia, 
between the carefully studied lands of Europe on the one side 
and British India on the other, it will be at once obvious that 
a careful account of its zoology would throw light upon many 
