REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1909. 



117 



Bangs, Outram. A uew tyrant-bird 

 from the Santa Marta region of Co- 

 lombia. 



Proc. Biol. Soc, Wasliinuton. 

 XXI, July 27, 1008, pp. 

 16.3, 164. Khijnehi)cy('lH>i 

 nulphurcscrns cxortirii>i 

 (p.' 163) is described 'as 

 new. 

 Cary, Merritt. New records and im- 

 portant range extensions of Colorado 



birds. 



Aitk, XXVI, No. 2, April, 

 1909, pp. 180-185. Notes 

 on 38 species and sub- 

 species. 



Cherrie, Geo. K. New birds from the 

 Orinoco Region and from Trinidnd. 

 Mus. Brooklyn Inst. Aifs 

 and Sci., 8ci. Bull., i. 

 No. 16, .Time 30, 1909, 

 pp. 387-390. 

 Formicivora catw-fiimosus (p. 

 387), Planeslicii.^ fninif/titun aquil- 

 onalis (p. 387). Pnchnrhamphus 

 vuirculus (p. 389), and Anoplops 

 rufttiiOd paliilns (p. 390), are new 

 forms, and Inczin (p. 390) is pro- 

 posed as a new genus. 



Court, Edward J. Treganza Bine 



heron. 



Auk, XXV, No. 3, ,TuIy, 1908, 



pp. 291-296, pis. V, VI. 



Arclea herodiaf; treoanr^al (p. 



291) is described as new, and 



notes on its habits and nesting 



are given. 



Dearborn, Ned. Catalogue of a collec- 

 tion of birds from British East 



Africa. 



Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Pub. 

 135, Oni. Series, i. No. 4, 

 May, 1909, pp. 141-190. 

 and map. 

 A list of 228 species witli notes. 

 Alethe akeleyw (p. 170) is desig- 

 nated as new. 



GoDMAN, F. Du Cane. A | Monograph 

 I of the I Petrels | (Order Tnbi- 

 nares) | By I F. Dn Cane Godman j 

 (two lines of titles) | with hand-col- 

 oured plates I by J. G. Keulemans j 

 in five parts | Part IV. | Witherby 

 & Co. I 326 High Holborn. London | 



April 1900. (cover title) 



Folio, pp. 23.3-296, pis. 

 67-84. 

 Accounts of 22 species with 

 colored illustrations of 18 of 

 them. 



Goldman, E. A. The Virginia rail 

 (Rallus virginianus) breetling in 



Mexico. 



Condor, x. No. 4, July, 

 1908, p. 181. 

 First record of the nesting of 

 the Virginia rail in Mexico. 



Summer birds of the Tulare 



Lake Region. 



Condor, x. No. 5, Sept. 

 1908, pp. 200-205. 

 Notes on 83 species collected or 

 observed in the Tulare Lake re- 

 gion, in the summer of 1907. 



Grinnell, Joseph, and others. Birds 

 and mammals of the 1007 Alexander 

 Expedition to Southeastern Alaska. 

 Univ. of Calif. Puh. in ZooL, 

 5, No. 2, Feb. 18, 1909, 

 pp. 171-264, pis, 25, 26, 

 figs. 1—4.. 

 The part of this paper which re- 

 lates to the birds, by Joseph Grin- 

 nell, covers pp. 181-244. A fully 

 annotated account of 99 species 

 met with on the expedition, of 

 which the following are described 

 as new : Larjopiis alexandrte (p. 

 204), L. dixoni (p. 207), Buteo 

 borealis alascensis (p. 211), Pi- 

 coides americanuK fumipectus (p. 

 217), Loxia currirostra sitkensis 

 (p. 223), and Planr.'iticns migra- 

 torius caurinus (p. 241). 



Three new Song sparrows from 



California. 



I'nir. of Calif. Pub. in 



Zool, 5, No. 3. April 9, 



1909, pp. 26.5-269. 



Melospiza melodia maxillaris (p. 



265) and M. m. saltonis (p. 268) 



are described as new. and M. m. 



gouldii (Baird) is revived as a 



form from the Marin region of 



California. 



Howell, Arthur H. Notes on the 

 summer birds of northern Georgia. 



Auk, XXVI, No. 2, .\pril, 

 1909, pp. 129-137. 

 Notes on 76 species (including 

 13 forms first recorded from the 

 State in the breeding season), 

 based chiefly upon field observa- 

 tions of the author in the sum- 

 mer of 1908. 



Agelaius phoeniceus fortis in 



Louisiana. 



Ai(k, XXVI, No. 2, April, 

 1909, p. 192. 

 First record of this form from 

 Louisiana. 



