238 Recently published Ornithological Works . 
has recently occurred on the west coast of France, and of 
which he vindicates the claims to he recognized as a valid 
species*. Here are two new subjects for Mr. Dresser to 
consider. 
Next we have (p. 36) a joint paper by Mr. Sharpe and M. 
Bouvier (the Secretary of the new Society) on a collection of 
birds made by M. Petit in Congo, containing representatives 
of about 100 species, and amongst them anew Psalidoprocne, 
which is described and figured as P.petiti. M. Louis Bureau 
follows with a good essay upon the vexed question of the dif¬ 
ferent plumages of Aquila pennata, of which he has had the 
good fortune to obtain five nests on the Lower Loire. In 
parts ii. and iii. MM. A. Besnard and A. Lacroix, each, con¬ 
tribute notes on some of the rarer birds of France, such as 
Turdus varius of Pallas, Falco concolor , and a Stonechat re¬ 
ferred by the latter, somewhat doubtfully, to Saxicola squalida 
of Eversmann. But the most important ornithological paper 
in the number is the first portion of a “ Revue critique de la 
Faune Ornithologique de la Siberie Orientale,” by M. Tac- 
zanowski of Warsaw. This is mainly based upon the large 
collections made by Dr. Dybowski, who, as is well known to 
ornithologists, has been actively engaged in collecting birds 
in Eastern Siberia during the past ten years, and embraces a 
revised resume of the memoirs upon his investigations already 
published in the f Journal fur Ornithologies 
15. D’Hamonville’s Catalogue of the Birds of Europe. 
[Catalogue des Oiseaux d’Europe ou enumeration des especes et races 
d’oiseaux dont la presence, soit habituelle, soit fortuite, a ete dument con- 
statee dans les limites geographiques de l’Europe, par J. C. L. T. D’Ha- 
monville. 8vo, pp. 74. Paris, Bailliere; London, Quaritch: 1876.] 
This contains the names of the -birds of Europe in Latin 
and French, according to the nomenclature of Degland and 
Gerbe, with a slight indication of their distribution. A few 
footnotes on doubtful species and rare occurrences are added. 
M. D'Hamonville means well, but is hardly “ up to the mark/' 
we fear. 
* See Mens. Olphe-Galliard’s letter on this bird, Ibis, 1875, p. 267. 
