Recently published Ornithological Works. 203 



8. Chapman on new Venezuelan Birds. 



[Descriptions of five apparently new Birds from Venezuela. By 

 Frank M. Chapman. Bull. Am. Mas. N. II. xii. p. 153 (1899).] 



From a collection made in Venezuela in tbe mountains 

 near San Antonio, about 90 miles from Cumana, by Mr. F. 

 W. Urich, wliich contains examples of 37 species, the following 

 are desciibed as new : — Setophafja rerlicalis pallidiventris, 

 Chlorospinyus {Hemispingus) canipileus, Mecocerculus nigri- 

 ceps, M. urichi, and Synallaxis striatipectus. 



9. Cordeaux on the Birds of the Humber District. 



[A List of British Birds belonging to the Iliunber Disrict. (Having a 

 special reference to their Migrations.) Revised to April 1899. By 

 John Cordeaux. 8vo. London : R. H. Porter, 1899.] 



A melancholy interest attaches to this little work, because, 

 as Me remarked in the obituarial notice of our late 

 friend and brother-member of the B. O. U., it was finished 

 only a short time before his lamented death. In this valuable 

 supplement to the author's earlier and larger work on the 

 same subject (published in 1872), the number of species is 

 raised to 322, and a wonderful amount of recent information 

 is conveyed in a small compass. This is owing, of course, 

 in a great measure to the work of the Committee on jNli- 

 gration of which Cordeaux was a leading member. The list 

 is a model. It is unfortunate that by a typographical error 

 the line " Ordei' Tubinares " should have slipped from its 

 proper place, which is above — and not below — " Familv 

 Procellariidae.^^ 



10. Dahl on the Habits of the Birds of the Bismarck 

 Islands. 



[Uas Leben der Vogel auf den Bismarckinseln. Von Fr. Dahl. 

 Mitteil. Mas. f. Nat. in Berlin. Band I. Heft 2, 1899.] 



Following Dr. Eeichenow's account of the birds of the Bis- 

 marck Islands and iu connection with it (see below, p. 211), 

 we have an excellent essay on the lives and habits of the 

 feathered inhabitants of these little-known lands by one who 

 has evidently studied them to great advantage. Among a 



