544 Recently published Ornithological Works, [Ibis, 



his pen, but by liis lovable personality, which gained for 

 him thousands of friends. His home " Riverby " on the 

 Hudson lliver, with its cabin-study "■ Slabsides ^' in the 

 adjoining hills, and his summer retreat " Woodchuck 

 Lodge," at his birthplace in the Catskills, were yearly 

 visited by hundreds of his followers. It is gratifying to 

 learn that within a month of his death 'a Memorial Asso- 

 ciation was organized and incorporated to acquire these 

 places which are so closely associated with Burroughs' life 

 and works, and to preserve them as shrines for those 

 who, in succeeding years, will know John Burroughs only 

 through the written words which form his legacy to the 

 world. 



XXIX. — Notices of rece.iit Ornitliological Publications. 



Bangs and Penard on American Birds. 



[Notes on some American Birds, chiefly Neotropical. By Outram 

 Bangs and Tliomas E. Penard. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Cambridge, 

 Mass. Ixiv. 1921, pp. 365-397.] 



An important systematic paper in Avhich two new genera, 

 one new species, and five new races are proposed, while a 

 number of species and subspecies are reviewed, involving 

 changes and corrections in nomenclature and synonymy. 



The new genera are Cometornis (perilously near Cos- 

 metornis in our opinion) to take the place of Lophotriccus, 

 with type Todirostrum squamacrista Lafres., and Muscifur 

 near Myiarchus for type M. semirvfus Scl. & Salv. The 

 new species is Cometornis vitiosus from Peru, based on an 

 old Lafresnaye specimen dating from early in the last 

 century ! 



Beebe on the Pheasants. 



[A Monograph of the Pheasants. By William Beebe. Vol. ii. 

 pp. xv-1-269 5 24 col. pis., 24 photogr., 5 maps. London (Witherby 

 for the New York Zoological Society), 1921. 4to.] 



The long-expected second volume of Mr. Beebe's great 



