668 Recent'i/ published Orn'itholofjical Works. 



these have been completed, a general treatise on the Oology 

 of Birds might well be based uj)on this great mass of 

 material, 



124. Oberholser on Humming-birds from Ecuador and 

 Colombia. 



[Catalogue of a (Jollectioii of Humming-birds from Ecuador and 

 Colombia. By Ilarrj^ C. Oberliolser. Proc. .U.S. Nat. Mus. xxiv. 

 pp. 309-342, 1902.] 



In this journal (Ibis, 1901, pp. 300, 458, 699; 1902, 

 pp. 59, 207) we recently published an account of the very 

 remarkable collection of birds made by Messrs. Claud 

 Hamilton and Walter Goodfellow during their journey 

 through Colombia and Ecuador in 1898 and 1899. The 

 Humming-birds were not included in Mr. Goodfellow's 

 memoir, because the whole of the specimens of that family 

 of birds had been parted with to the United States National 

 Museum. With the possible exception of that of Baron (see 

 Nov. Zool. vol. i. p. 43), Messrs. Hamilton and Goodfellow^s 

 series of these birds " is probably the finest single collection 

 ever made, comprising as it does 113G specimens, almost all 

 in fine condition and accompanied by proper data." Mr. 

 Oberliolser, to whom their examination has been entrusted, 

 refers them to 109 species and subspecies. 



The author follows the arrangement of Mr. Hartert in 

 the ' Tierreich,' and gives many useful remarks besides the 

 collectors^ notes. He describes as new : — Topaza pella 

 pamprepta, from the Rio Napo ; Boissonneaua flavescens tiiio- 

 chlora., from West Ecuador ; Heliangelus exortls soderstruini, 

 from Corazon, Ecuador ; and Zodalia thaumasta, from Chillo, 

 Ecuador. Besides these, other species represented in the 

 collection ai'e rare and of much interest. 



125. Palmer on Legislation for Birds in the United States. 

 [Legislation for the Protection of Birds other than Game-Birds. By 



T. S. Palmer. Bull. U.S. Dept. Agric, Div. of Biol. Surv., No. 12, 

 Revised Edition, 1902.] 



Mr. Palmer tells us that at least twelve States of the 

 Union have passed new laws for the protection of birds since 

 1900, while others have amended, re-enacted, or codified their 



