188 Recently published Ornithological Works. 
Hydrophasianus chirurgus (Scopoli). April, June, July 
(Tissa). The nest is a small shallow patch of weeds on the 
water. The young nestling is black, with a bright brown 
streak down the middle of the head and back, and another 
down each side. Iris dark brown, nearly black. 
Esacus recurvirostris (Cuy.) . March (to east of Tissa). 
Podiceps fluviatilis (Tunst.). May (young), June 
(Tissa). A floating nest of weeds. 
Dendrocygna javanica (Horsf.). June, July (Tissa). 
One nest in long grass, on the surface of the water, was 
cleverly domed. 
Phcenicopterus roseus (Pall.). According to natives who 
have correctly described the nest of the Flamingo, the breed¬ 
ing-season is early in the year, about March, in the south¬ 
east. 
Xenorhynchus asiaticus (Lath.). Mr. Byrde, Assistant 
Government Agent at Mannar, obtained two young birds last 
year, about March, from a nest in his district. They are quite 
tame, and stalk about near his house. 
Herodias alba (Linn.). The bill of the Great Egret is 
yellow in the breeding-season. 
Herodias intermedia (Wagler). The bill of this Egret 
is yellow in the breeding-season. 
XXV.— Notices of Recent Ornithological Publications. 
[Continued from p. 98.] 
30. Adrianof on the Birds of North-western Mongolia. 
[Ocherki Severo-Zapadnoi Mongolii. G. N. Potanin. Vypusk iii. 
St. Petersburg: 1883. 8vo.] 
The above is as much as need be given of the Russian 
title of M. Potanin’s report of his travels in North¬ 
western Mongolia in 1879-80, through a region of large 
lakes receiving the drainage of the mountain-ranges on the 
confines of Russia and China. At pp. 241-243 is a list of 
