204 abstracts: ornithology 



ORNITHOLOGY.— r/t^ bi/ds [of Glacier National Park]. Florence 

 Merriam Bailey. Wild Animals of Glacier National Park, 

 103-199. 1918. 



This is the final report to which the previously published list of the 

 birds of Glacier National Park was but preliminary. The introductory 

 matter consists of general information regarding the altitudinal dis- 

 tribution of birds in the Park, together with a key to the commoner 

 summer residents. In the main body of the text, the 187 birds now 

 known from the Park are treated in systematic sequence. Brief de- 

 scriptions are given of some species, but the annotations consist chiefly 

 of remarks on habits, records of occurrence, and distribution in the 

 Park. The accounts of some birds, such as Histrionicus histrionicus 

 pacificus, Lagopus leucurus altipetens, Pandion haliaetus carolinensis, 

 Seiurus noveboracensis notabilis, and Cinclus mexicanus unicolor, are 

 somewhat extended. The illustrations consist of 15 full page plates 

 and numerous smaller figures, all in black and white. 



Harry C. Oberholser. 



ORNITHOLOGY.— Notes on Dr. W. L. Abbott's second collection of 

 birds from Simalur Island, western Sumatra. Harry C. Ober- 

 holser. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 55: 473-498. 1919. 



Simalur Island lies somewhat less than 100 miles off the western 

 coast of Sumatra, and about 200 miles from its northwestern end. 

 The collection here discussed was made by Dr. W. L. Abbott in 1902, 

 and consists of 70 specimens, representing 38 species. Two species 

 are actual additions to the avifauna of the island, and these, together 

 with those previously known, make a total of 79 now known to occur 

 on Simalur Island. In this annotated list the data from Dr. Abbott's 

 specimens and various critical notes are given. A number of forms 

 from Simalur Island originally described as species are treated here as 

 subspecific forms because found to be connected by individual varia- 

 tion with the typical races of their respective species. A re-examination 

 of the Ramphalcyon javana case indicates that the identification of the 

 original description of this bird with the Philippine race is unwarranted, 

 and that Ramphalcyon javana should still remain the name for the 

 Bornean race. Only one new subspecies is here described, an interesting 

 new rail, Hypotaenidia striata reliqua. H. C^O. 



