688 Recently published Ornithological Works. 
descent are all full of interest. We may not perhaps agree in 
every particular with the author's views, but we have little 
fault to find with his statements, and his quotations are 
generally, although not always, well selected. But we are 
sorry that he should have been misled by the “poet Cowper" 
(and some recent writers) into believing the ancient myth 
about the mode of breeding of the Ostrich ( Struthio ). 
It is now perfectly well established that the Ostrich is 
monogamous, and that both cock and hen take part in 
the duties of incubation (see Ibis, 1899, p. 481). The 
little volume appears to have been very carefully “read," 
and the misprints are few, although we may remark that our 
great authority on the Cuckoo is “ Rey/’ not “ Reh” (see 
p. 163). But, on the whole, we have seldom met with a book 
so free from defects of this kind, and are pleased to be able 
to tell Mr. Pycraft that we close it with such a “ feeling of 
satisfaction " as he hoped would follow its perusal. In our 
opinion it is one of the most instructive manuals on bird-life 
that has yet appeared. 
127. Richmond on a new Dendrornis. 
[Description of a new Bird of the Genus Dendrornis. By Charles W. 
Richmond. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 317.] 
Dendrornis striatigularis is based on a single specimen 
obtained at Alta Mira, Mexico, in 1894, by Mr. F. B. Arm¬ 
strong. It is generally similar to D. Jlavigaster. The specimen 
is in the U.S. National Museum. 
128. Richmond on new Birds from Siam. 
[Descriptions of Three new Birds from Lower Siam. By Charles W. 
Richmond. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 319.] 
The collection made by Dr. W. L. Abbott in the province 
of Trong, Lower Siam, embraces some 1300 skins, including 
representatives of many species not yet recorded from that 
district. Mr. Richmond characterizes the following as 
new :—JEthopyga anomala , Criniger sordidus, and Turdin- 
ulus granti. 
