1 92 1.] Recently published Ornithological Works. 547 



the more detailed ariangenieiit of route-lines sucli as were 

 first proposed by the late Prof. Palraen. 



Chapman on South- American Birds. 



[Descriptions of apparently new Birds from Bolivia, Brazil, and 

 Venezuela. By Frank M. Chapman. American Museum Novitates, 

 No. 2, 1921, pp. 1-8.] 



Eight new forms are described. Of these, four are new 

 species as follows : — Capita brunneipedus, Nonnula amauro- 

 cephala, and Microrhopias emilice from Brazil, belonging 

 to the Museum Goeldi at Para, and Rhopochares cocha- 

 bamboi from Bolivia, collected by Miller and Boyle for the 

 American Museum. 



The periodical in which these appear is a new one and is 

 stated to be " issued as Occasion requires for the publication 

 of preliminary announcements etc. The articles are to be 

 numbered serially and paged independently." 



Courtois on the Birds of China. 



[Les Oiseaux du Musee de Zi-ka-wei. Mem. concernant I'Histoire 

 Naturelle de I'Empire Chinois par des Peres de la Compagnie de Jesus, 

 Vol. V. cahier 3, fasc. 1-4, pp. 1-121, pis. 1-45, 1912-1918.] 



There has recently reached us from China a memoir on 

 the birds of the Zikawei Museum, near Shanghai, in four 

 quarto parts. Though nowhere stated in so many words, 

 the letterpress and the plates appear to be the work of the 

 Rev. R. L. Courtois, S.J., the Director of the Museum and 

 a member of our Union. 



The Museum of Zikawei was founded by the late 

 Pere Heude, who travelled extensively in China and 

 Malayan countries. In the present publication is a list 

 of the birds in the collection, arranged according to Oustalet 

 and David's work on the birds of China, with Latin and 

 Chinese names, localities, and remarks on the nests and 

 eggs when in the collection. The first fascicule contains a 

 list of 318 species in the collection, the second a series 

 of 13 plates of nests and eggs of Chinese birds,, tlie latter 



