560 Recently imhlished Ornithological Works. [Ibis, 



administered by the same sei'Aace as the National Parks, 

 which are tracts of ereater area. 



Todd on neiv South American Birds. 



[Descriptions of apparently new South American Birds. B}' W. E. 

 Clyde Todd. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 33, 1920, pp. 71-76.] 



This short paper contains descriptions of three new species 

 and thirteen new subspecies, chiefly from French Guiana 

 and the lower Amazon, where collections have recently 

 been made for .the Carnegie Museum at Pittsburg by 

 Mr. S. M. Klages. The new species are as follows : — 

 Polioptila guianensis, French Guiana ; Myrmopagis para- 

 cusis, Para, Brazil ; and Nyctipolus maculosus, French 

 Guiana. 



Townsend on the Birds of Massachusetts. 



[Sii pplenieut to the Birds of Essex County, Massachusetts. By Charles 

 Wendell Townsend. Memoirs of the Nuttall Ornithological Club, no. 5, 

 pp. 1-196 ; 1 pi., 1 map. Cambridge, Mass., 1920. 8vo.] 



About fifteen years ago Dr. Townsend published an 

 account of the birds of Essex County, which lies on the 

 coast of Massachusetts a little to the north of Boston 

 and contains a number of early New England settlements 

 and towns, the most important of them being Salem, well 

 known even in England for the burning of the witches. 

 Dr. Townsend himself has a summer home at Ipswich 

 further north, and has now prepared a supplemental list 

 of the birds of the county, not only in order to bring his 

 records up to date, but also to show the changes which have 

 taken place during the period which has elapsed, in the 

 distribution of the various species. Legislation has helped 

 to preserve many otherwise vanishing species. On the 

 other hand, the prevalence of insect pests which have done 

 great damage to the woods of this part of the county, has 

 led to spraying the trees with poisonous fluids, to clearing 

 up the brushwood and undergrowth, and to the stopping up 



