156 Rccenthj published Ornithological Works. [Ibis, 



wife, M'lio was liis constant companion and herself a first- 

 rate collector, Avas in the vicinity of Cliapada and Cuyuba, 

 in the Province o£ Matto Grosso in Brazil. The large 

 collection of birds secured in that region is now divided 

 between tlie British Museum and the American Museum o£ 

 Natural History. In 1889 the Smiths collected in Mexico 

 for Mr. Godman, who was then amassing material for the 

 MUolo^na Centrali- Americana.' From 1890 to 1895 they 

 were in the West Indies, in the interests of the West Indian 

 Committee of the Royal Society and British Association. 

 Later he collected in Colombia for the Carnegie Museum. 

 Here, however, he became so seriously ill that he had to 

 give up all further work in the Tropics. 



A sketch of his life by Dr. W. J. Holland will be found in 

 ' Science ' (vol. xlix. 1919, pp. 481-483). 



IX. — Notices of recent Ornitliological Publications. 



Cory's Catalogue of American Birds. 



[Catalogue of Birds of the Americas and the adjacent Islands in the 

 Field Museum of Naturid History. By Charles B. Cory. Pt. ii. nj. 2. 

 Families Trogonidfe, Cuculidse, Capitonidc-E, Rhamphastidse, Galbulidse, 

 Bucconidfe, and Picidas. Pp. 317-607, 1 col. pi. Field Museum of 

 Natural History Publication no. 203, Zool. ser. vol. xiii. Chicago, 

 U.S.A., Dec. 31,1919.] 



The second part of Mr. Cory's Catalogue of the Birds of 

 the Americas contains the lists of the species of the remaining 

 families of Picarian birds left over from Part I. published in 

 1918 and reviewed in ' The Ibis ' (1918, p. 500). The present 

 part follows the lines of the previous one, and contains 

 descriptions of all those species not mentioned in the Cata- 

 logue of the Birds in the British Museum or in Ridgway's 

 ' Birds of North and Middle America.' We are very glad to 

 see a great improvement in the proof-reading, and have hardly 

 noticed any of the misprints which disfigured the first part. 



