Recently published Ornithological Works. 171 



the author to 213 species. Of these seven are described as 

 new — Buarremon borellii, Euscarthmus viridiceps, Phyllo- 

 myias berlepschi, ^erphophaga inornata, Sublegatus frontalis, 

 Leptoptila callauchen, and L. saturata. Dr. Borelii also 

 obtained in the province of Jujuy an example of the rare 

 Humming-bird Eriocnemis glaucopoides, of which only one 

 example was previously known, and has added 26 species to 

 the Argentine and 38 to the Bolivian avifauna, 



22. Sharpens 'Monograph of the Paradiseidse.' 



[Monograph of the Pnradiseidce, or Birds of Paradise, and Ptllono- 

 rhynchidce, or Bower-Birds. By R, Bowdler Sharpe, LL.D., F.L.S., &c. 

 Part VII. Foho. London : H. Sotherau & Co., 1897.] 



The seventh part of Dr. Sharpe's splendid monograph 

 contains illustrations of the following species : — 



Craspedophora alberti. Parotia carolae. 



Seleucides nigricans (2 plates). Pteridophora alberti. 



Macgregoria pulchra. Loboparadisea sericea. 



Paradisea minor (2 plates). ^luroedus melanocephalus. 



Of these we pronounce Pteridophora to be the most 

 wonderful — it is, in fact, probably the most remarkable bird 

 in existence. It is hardly possible to imagine the ages 

 of '^ sexual selection '' that would be required to develop 

 the male^s extraordinary plumes. Loboparadisea stricea is, 

 we suspect, a young or female of an unknown male. 



23. Shufeldt on Fossil Bird-bones from Tennessee. 



[On Fossil Bird-bones obtained by Expeditions of the University of 

 Pennsylvania from the Bone-caves of Tennessee. By Dr. R. W. Shufeldt. 

 Amer. Nat., July, 1897.] 



The author describes a small collection of subfossil bones 

 obtained by IMr. H. C. JMercer while in charge of explorations 

 for the University of Pennsylv^ania in the bone-caves of Ten- 

 nessee. They belong to species still, or until recently, 

 abundant in North America, of which eight are determin- 

 able. They embrace numerous bones of the Turkey, which 

 Dr. Shufeldt refers to Meleagris gallopavo, though it appears 



