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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1909. 



Kkowlton, Frank II. Americau Na- 

 ture Series | Group I. Natural His- 

 tory I Birds of the World | A popu- 

 lar account | By ] Franli H. Knowl- 

 ton, Ph. D. I United States Natioual 

 Museum j (two liues of titles) | 

 with a chapter on the anatomy of 

 birds I by | Frederic A. Lucas | 

 Curator-in-Chief, Brooklyn Institute 

 of Arts and Sciences | the whole 

 edited by | Robert Ridgway i Cur- 

 ator of Birds, United States Na- 

 tional Museum \ with 16 Colored 

 Plates and 236 illustrations | (de- 

 sign) ] New York | Henry Holt and 



Company | 1909 



Pp. i-xiii, l-S7o, 16 pis., 

 flgs. 1-2.36. 

 A popular treatise on the birds 

 of the world. 



INIearns, Edgar Alexander. Additions 

 to the list of Philippine birds, with 

 descriptions of new and rare species. 

 Proc. U. S. Xat. Mtis.. 

 XXXVI, No. 1679, May 

 22, 1909, pp. 4.35-447. 

 Three species are added to the 

 Philippine avifauna, and the fol- 

 lowing are diagnosed as new : 

 Pliapitreron samarensis (p. 436), 

 Muscadivores palmasensis (p. 436), 

 Otiis steerei (p. 437), Prionitioufi 

 7naliiH]angensis (p. 437), Yuiif/i- 

 picus siasiensis (p. 438), Rhino- 

 myias riificauda mindanetisis (p. 

 439), Cri/ptolopha malindangenMs 

 (p. 440), Psciidothnrrhaleus malin- 

 danocnsis (p. 441). Bniclu/pteri/x 

 malindanycnsis (p. 441), Hj/Ioterpc 

 apoensis hasihinica (p. 442), 

 Zosterops goodfellowi malindan- 

 geiisis (p. 443), Cyrtostomus jug- 

 iilnris inindaiH'iisi)i (p. 443), C. j. 

 icoodi (p. 444). Pgrrliula steerei 

 (p. 44.5), Dicrunts balicassius min- 

 dorensis (p. 447), and Chibia 

 cagayanensis (p. 447). 



The hitherto unknown females 

 of Cyrtostomus jugularis dintiga- 

 tensis and Anthrcptes cagayanen- 

 sis are also described. 



A list of birds collected by Dr. 



Paul Bartsch in the Philippine 

 Islands, Borneo, Guam, and Midway 

 Island, with descriptions of three 

 new forms. 



Proc. V. S. Xat. Mus., 



XXXVI, No. 1683, May 



27, 1909, pp. 463-478. 



A partly annotated list of the 



birds collected byX*r. Paul Bartsch, 



Mearns, Edgar Alexander — Cont'd. 



who accompanied the U. S. Bureau 

 of Fisheries steamer "Albatross " 

 on its Philippine expedition. The 

 following are new: RamphaU-yon 

 capcnsis smithi (p. 466), Pycno)i- 

 otus gokivier suluensis (p. 470), 

 and CoUocalia iartschi (p. 476). 



Nelson, E. W. A new thrush from 



^lexico. 



Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 

 XXII, April 17, 1909, pp. 

 49, 50. 

 Catharus mexicanus smithi (p. 

 49) is diagnosed as new. 



Oberholser, Harry C. A synopsis of 



the genera and species of Cygniu.ne. 



Emu, VIII, pt. 1. .Tuly 1, 



1908. pp. 1. 2. 



A synopsis of the recent and 



fossil forms of this group. Clango- 



cycnus (p. 3) is a new subgenus. 



A new Great Horned owl from 



Venezuela, with notes on the names 

 of the American forms. 



Mus. Brooklyn Inst. Arts 



and Sci., 8ci. Bull, i. No. 



14, Sept. 15, 1908, pp. 



371-374. 



Buho virginianus scotinus (p. 



371) is diagnosed as new, and a 



list of the 18 American forms 



recognized by the author Is given. 



X revision of the Kingfisher 



genus Ramphalcyon (Pelargopsis). 



Proc. U. 8. Sat. Mus., 

 XXXV, No. 1657, Feb. 9, 

 1909. pp. 657-GSO. 

 The author recognizes 19 species 

 and subspecies, of which the fol- 

 lowing are indicated as new : 

 Ramphalcyon capensis isoptera (p. 

 671), R. c. ncsoeca (p. 674), R. c. 

 cyanoptcryx (p. 676), and R. c. 

 hydrophila (p. 677). Pelargopsis 

 Gloger, 1842, as the generic name 

 of this group, is found to be in- 

 validated, and Ramphalcyon Reich- 

 enbach, 1851, is adopted in its 

 place. 



Palmer, T. S. The Black rail (Crecis- 



cus jamaicensis) in the District of 



Columbia. 



Aulc, XXVI, No. 2, April, 

 1909, p. 190. 

 Records of 4 specimens of this 

 species from the District of Co- 

 lumbia. 



