214 Recently published Ornithological Works. 
November last. It makes an excellent index to the f Catalogue 
of Birds/ containing in every case a reference to the volume 
wherein each species is described and its synonymy, to which 
is added a concise indication of the patria . Besides this, all 
additional species characterized during the publication of 
the Catalogue are inserted in their proper places ; while the 
extinct forms (which were not mentioned in the former Hand¬ 
list of 1869-71) are interpolated in their correct positions, 
so far as these can be ascertained. The latter are mostly taken 
from Mr. Lydekker’s f Catalogue of Fossil Birds 3 of 1891. 
In the present List Hr. Sharpe follows (nearly) the 
classification which he put forward at the Ornithological 
Congress of 1891, and begins at the bottom of the Class. 
This, we are well aware, is the modern fashion, but it is not 
at all convenient, as until recent years all systematic writers 
on ornithology have taken the opposite course. The volume 
commences, therefore, with the Ratitse, and contains all the 
lower Orders of Birds up to what we call the Psittaci, 
Picarise, and Passeres. These, we presume, will be treated 
of in the second and third volumes, to the issue of which 
we look forward with great interest, as the f New Hand¬ 
list/ when complete, will be of surpassing value to all 
ornithologists. 
So far as we can make out, only four new generic terms are 
proposed in the present volume— Mezotreron for Ptilopus 
dohertyi Rotlisch., Pseuduria for Uria columba (Pall.), 
Nannopterum for Phalacrocorax harrisi Rothsch., and 
Psiloscops (ex MS. Coues) for Scops flammeola Kaup. 
The subjoined table (p. 215) gives the number of species and 
genera recognized in the 33 Orders of Birds that are treated 
of in the present volume. We have ventured to simplify the 
name of the 24th Order of Carinatae by omitting one syllable, 
because the correct genitive of “ Cat hart es 33 in Latin would 
not, we believe, be f Cathartidis 3 
