740 Recently published Ornithological Wotks. [Ibis, 



the Bahama Islands/ published in 1771, down to photo- 

 graphs of the last survivor of the species which lived in 

 the Zoological Gardens at Cincinnati, and Avhich is now 

 mounted in the United States Museum, at Washington. 

 Dr. Shufeldt gives the palm to a plate re[)roduced from 

 a painting by Mr. Fuertes which appeared in Eaton's 

 ' Birds of New York,' published in 1910. 



The photographs of the plates were taken by Dr. Shufeldt 

 himself, and form a most interesting series of reproductions. 



Stresemann on Sumatraii Woodpeckers. 



[Die Spechte der Insel Sumatra — Eine monographische Studie. Von 

 Dr. E. Stresemann. Arch. Naturg. vol. 87, Abt. A. pp. 64-120, 1921.] 



It is in the Malay Peninsula and Sumatra that we find 

 the greatest development of the Woodpeckers, the former 

 containing 24, the latter 22 diiferent forms, and Dr. Strese- 

 mann has accomplished a most useful task in preparing the 

 present nionogtaph based on the material available in 

 Germany, Holland, and at Tring. The nomenclature is 

 carefully worked out, and should be taken note of by all 

 workers on the birds of the Indian Region. JJinopium of 

 Rafinesque takes the place of the more familiar Tiga 

 of Kaup, and Blythipicus for Lepocestes of the Catalogue. 

 New forms are : — Picus vittatus liuiilans from Kangean I., 

 near Bali, Callophus ndniatus dayak from Borneo, Dinopium 

 javanense palmarum from Sumatra. There is a carefully 

 constructed key of all the forms treated of, and some 

 interesting general remarks on geographical distribution, 

 variation -in size and colour, and sexual dimorphism and 

 moult. 



Wollaston's Life of Neivton. 



[Life of Alfred Newton, Professor of Comparative Anatomy, Cambridjre 

 University, 1866-1907. By A. F. R. Wollaston. Pp. xvi + 332 ; 

 portraits. London (John Mnrray), 1921. 8vo.] 



Newton apparently passed on one of his characteristics to 

 his biographer, fur this long looked-for volume has appeared 



