378 Recently published Ornithological Works. 
Mr. Gould's annual number of the ‘ Birds of Asia ' gives 
us portraits of the following species :—■ 
Actenoides hombroni. 
Rhodopechys sanguinea. 
Erythrospiza obsoleta. 
-incarnata. 
Pitta baudii. 
-gurneyi. 
-steerii. 
-ussheri. 
-lindsayi. 
-concretus. 
Sturnus unicolor. 
-bumii. 
Sutbora munipurensis. 
The red-stained Mountain-Finches of the genus Erythro¬ 
spiza and its allied forms are of great interest, but have been 
very unnecessarily cut up into too many subdivisions. Ery¬ 
throspiza incarnata of Severtzoff ought, it appears, to bear 
the specific name mongolica of Swinhoe. Sturnus humii of 
Mr. Gould and of Mr. Brooks (Ibis, 1876, p. 500) appears 
to be the species just named S. ambiguus by the energetic 
ornithologist after whom Messrs. Brooks and Gould have in¬ 
dependently proposed to call it*. We must also remark 
that Mr. Gould's reasons for including S. unicolor in the 
c Birds of Asia' are rather inconsequent. 
41. Rowley’s ‘ Ornithological Miscellany .' 
[Ornithological Miscellany. Edited by George Dawson Rowley, M.A., 
F.L.S., F.Z.S., Member of the British Ornithologists’ Union. Parts vii. 
and viii. London : 1877, Triibner and Co.] 
Mr. Rowley continues to publish fresh numbers of his 
favourite periodical. Part vii. gives us excellent figures of 
Oriolus formosus of the Sangi Islands (we really cannot use 
the unnecessary generic term which Mr. Rowley gives to this 
true Oriole), of the nest and eggs of White's Thrush, from ex¬ 
amples obtained by Mr. Swinhoe near Ningpo, China, and of 
Pitta rosenbergi of the Schouten Islands. Mr. Rowley also 
gives us, with the assistance of Dr. Meyer, an excellent article 
on the genus Loriculus, with illustrations of four of these 
beautiful little Parrots— L . catamene, L. regains , L. exilis , 
and L. stigmatus. 
In part viii. we have a continuation of the useful transla¬ 
tion of Prejevalsky's essay upon the birds of Mongolia and 
* 1 Stray Feathers,’ iv. p, 512. 
