504 Recently published OrnithuJoyical JJ'orks. 



have previously noticed only the two first parts (sec 

 'Ibis/ 1895, p. 488). Taking thera altogether we have 

 a complete account of the Oruis of one of the most varied 

 and interesting districts of the Indian Empire^ to which 

 the energetic author has devoted uuceasiug attention for 

 many years. The excellent field-notes contain accounts of 

 numerous discoveries of nests and eggs not known to any 

 other collector and of great rarity. The eggs of three 

 species of Pitta are described, as are also those of several 

 little-known Cuckoos {Cuccystes coroiitandvs, Chalcococcyx 

 maculatus, and Hierococcyx nisicolor), and full details of 

 the curious nests of Batrachostomus are given. 



Cyanops robustirostris (on the plate called Mezubucco r.) 

 and Corythocichla squamata are described as new to science 

 and figured, but the latter, Mr. Baker now tells us, is not 

 dift'erent from Turdiimlus murinus (Blyth). 



77. Bangs on Birds from Chiriqui. 



[I. On a Collectiou of J3ir(is made by W. W. Brown, Jr., at David and 

 Divala, Chiriqui. By Outram Bangs. The Auk, xviii. pp. 355-370. 



II. Description of a new Woodpecker from Chiriqui. By Outram 

 Bangs. Pr. New Engl. Zool. CI. ii. p. i)9. 



III. On a Second Collectiou of Birds made in Chiriqui by W. \V. 

 Browm, Jr. By Outram Bangs. Op. cit. iii. pp. 15-70.] 



lu the first paper an account is given of a collectiou of 

 bird-skins made by Mr. W. W. Brown, jr., in the lowlauds 

 of Chiriqui, at David and Divala. In 58 days this energetic 

 taxidermist managed to secure 1183 specimens cf birds and 

 many mammals besides. Mr. Bangs gives a list of about IGO 

 species, whereof six are " forms that appear to be new ^' ; 

 but it may seem to some of us that Mr. Bangs '' cuts " his 

 species and subspecies " rather fine." We may also remark 

 that Mr. Bangs does not seem to be aware of the existence 

 of a paper on the birds of the same district published as 

 long ago as 1856, or at any rate does not mention it (see 

 P. Z. S. 1856, p. 138). 



The second paper is devoted to the description of a 

 supposed new Woodpecker, based on a single specimen I'rom 



