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ORNITHOLOGY. — Three reniarkable 7iew species of birds from Santo 



Domingo. J. H. Riley, Smithsonian Misc. Coll. 66: No. 15. Pp. 



1-2. December 1, 1916. 



That the possibilities of the avifauna of the island of Santo Domingo 



are not yet exhausted is emphasized by the three remarkable new birds 



recently discovered there by Dr. W. L. Abbott. The first is an owl, 



Asio noctipetens, of a genus hitherto unrepresented on the island. 



Another is Brachyspiza anfiUarum, belonging to a genus not before 



detected in any of the West Indies. Still more remarkable is a new 



white- winged crossbill, Loxia megaplaga, of another genus hitherto 



unknown from the West Indies. Strangely enough, this new Loxia 



is much more closely allied to Loxia hifasciata of northern Europe than 



to Loxia leucoptera of North America. Harry C. Oberholser. 



ORNITHOLOGY. — Generic navies applied to birds during the years 

 1906 to 1915, inclusive, with additions and corrections to Water- 

 house's ''Index Generum Avium." Charles W. Richmond. 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 53: 565-636. August 16, 1917. 

 This is, as its title indicates, a summary of the generic names pro- 

 posed during the decade which has elapsed since the publication of 

 Dr. Richmond's last similar list, including other names previously 

 omitted or ovei'looked. A list of the errors in the IndexGenerum Avium 

 of Waterhouse is first given, together with lists of all the Linnaean 

 genera and a list of the genera published in Bonaparte's papers in the 

 Ateneo Italiano, May and August, 1854. The main part of this paper 

 is an alphabetical list of 607 generic names, together with authority, 

 original citation, type and manner of determination, and indication of 

 the family to which it belongs. Many changes in current names and 

 other nomenclatural notes are added in footnotes. The following 

 new generic names are introduced: Tychaedon Richmond, for Aedo- 

 nopsis Sharpe, preoccupied; and Amoromyza Richmond, for M crops 

 samoensis Hombron and Jacquinot. A catalogue of the 607 generic 

 names of the alphabetical list, arranged under families, is also added. 



Harry C. Oberholser. 



ORNITHOLOGY.— r/?e birds of the Afiamba Islands. Harry C. 



Oberholser. Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. 98. Pp. v + 75,pls.l-2. 1917>. 



The Anamba Islands lie in the South China Sea between the Natuna 



Islands and the Malay Peninsula. They comprise about 20 principal 



islands, with possibly 200 more islets and rocks, spread over a geo- 



