Recently published Ornithological Works. 735 



from examples in a collection made in Western Colombia by 

 Mervyn G. Palmer, and received through Mr. Rosenberg. 



The new species and subspecies are named Odontophorus 

 baliolus, Picumnus canus, Xiphorhynchus rosenbergi, lihop- 

 octites alogus, Mionectes olivaceus hederacens, Pheugopedias 

 spadix, P. mystacalis saltuensis, and Henicorldna leucosticta 

 eucharis. 



78. Bangs on two rare Hawaiian Birds. 



[Unrecorded Specimens of two rare Hawaiian Birds. By Outrain Bangs. 

 Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, xxiii. p. 57.] 



The birds " discovered " in the recesses of the Museum of 

 Comparative Zoology are Acrulocercus apicalis and Ciridops 

 anna, both now (probably) extinct, and very rare in 



Collections. 



79. Beebe's ' Search for a Wilderness* 



[Our Search for a Wilderness. By Mary Blair Beebe and C. William 

 Beebe. New York : Henry Holt & Company, 1910. $±75. With 398 

 illustrations from photographs and 398 pp., 8vo.] 



Many of our readers will remember a charming account 

 of a winter spent among the birds of Mexico by Mr. and 

 Airs. Beebe some years ago (see ' Ibis/ 1896, p. 580). They 

 have now gone further afield, and during the last two winters 

 have visited Venezuela and British Guiana. 



Mr. Beebe is one of the new school of naturalists, who 

 believe in the camera and in the patient watching of birds. 

 At the same time he is no fanatic in this respect, and has 

 no sentimental objections to shooting and preserving speci- 

 mens if recpuired for the purpose of identification. He is also 

 fully competent (with the help of his assistant, Mr. Lee S. 

 Crandall) to enrich the Zoological Park of New York, where 

 he is Curator of Onithology, with many additions to their 

 living collection. 



Of his recent excursions to Venezuela and some of the 

 results arrived at, Mr. Beebe has already given us an 

 account in two papers lately published in the new Journal 

 ' Zoologica ' (see above, pp. 54-9, 550). A more popular 



