158 Recently published Omit lioloyical Works. [Jbis, 



11. Hans Graf von Berlepcch — Eine Lebeusskizze. Id., Jourii. Oriiitli. 



1915, pp. 557-6G8, portrait. 



12. Description of a new Formicarian Bird from Colombia, by 



E. Hellmayr and Dr. J. v. Madarasz. Aquila, xii. 1914, p. 88. 

 1.3. Nomeuclatorder Vijo-el Bayerns. Von 0. E. Hellmayr und 11. Laub- 

 mann. Pp. i-viii+1-68. Miincben (G. Fischer). 8vo. 



We have recentlj^ received from Dr. Hellmayr a set of 

 his publications during the war period, and the importance 

 and accuracy of his work demands this somewhat long 

 notice. The first eight of the papers listed contain descrip- 

 tions of new species and subspecies of Neotropical birds, and 

 for the enumeration of these we must refer our readers to 

 the ' Zoological Record/ in which the new forms are duly 

 recorded. In the paper numbered 6, a new Andean Jay is 

 characterized under the name Cyanohjca viridicyunea cyuno- 

 lama. This is obviously identical with the bird named and 

 figured by Mr. W. L. Sclater in the October number of 

 'The Ibis' of the same year, 1917 (p. 465, pi. viii.), and 

 Hellmayr's name, having been published in February, must 

 take precedence. Another nomenclatural clash is in regard 

 to the Fan-tailed Raven of north-eastern Africa, Corvus affinis 

 Riipp. nee Shaw, which therefore requires a new name. 

 Dr. Ilartert renamed it C. rhipidurus in the 'Bulletin^ 

 of the V>. 0. Club, published Nov. 30, 1918 ; Hellmayr 

 renamed it Corvus brachycercus in his Miscel. Orn. iv., 

 published June 1919. 



In the ninth paper on our list Dr. Hellmayr criticises 

 three recently published check-lists of European birds : our 

 own B. O. U. list, to which he gives a good deal of praise ; 

 that of Rsichenow and Hesse (published in the ' Journal fiir 

 Ornithologie ' for 1916) of German birds, which meets with 

 scant approval as being reactionary ; and, finally, a Swiss list, 

 published at Berne in 1915 and compiled by Th. Studer and 

 G. von Burg, '^i'he 13th item on the list is Dr. Hellmayr's 

 own contribution to the check-lists, and a comparison of 

 the names used by him in his Bavarian list with those 

 of the B. O. U. list shows that thei-e are but ^ew points of 

 disajireement between them. 



