284 Recently published Ornithological J forks. 



56. Riley on Birds from Barbuda and Antigua, West 

 Indies. 



[Catalogue of a Collection of Birds from Barbuda and Antigua, British 

 West Indies. By J. H. Riley. Smiths. Miscell. Coll. vol. ii. p. 297 

 (1904).] 



In this paper we have an account of a collection of 324 

 skins formed by Mr. E. Gr. Selwyn-Branch on the (ornitho- 

 logically) little-known islands of Barbuda and Antigua, 

 British West Indies, in 1903, and acquired by the U.S. 

 National Museum. Adding previous records we are now 

 acquainted with 59 species and subspecies from Barbuda and 

 61 from Antigua. 



A new subspecies of Kestrel from Porto Rico is described 

 as Cerchneis sparveria loquacula, and a new and distinct 

 species of Dendroeca from Barbuda is named D. subita. The 

 form of Coccyzus in Dominica (C. dominica Shelley) is quite 

 unnecessarily renamed Coccyzus shelleyi. We may be allowed 

 to point out that " dominie us " is an adjective and " dominicee " 

 a feminine substantive in the genitive case, and that these 

 two terms are not identical. 



57. Robinson on Malayan Birds. 



[List of a small Collection of Mammals, Birds, and Batrachians from 

 Gunong Angsi, Negri Sembilan. By Robert C. Robinson, M.B.O.U. 

 Journ. Fed. Malay States Mus. vol. i. p. 25 (1895).] 



The first number of the new journal lately started by the 

 Museums of the Federated States of the Malay Peninsula 

 contains, among other articles on a variety of subjects, one 

 which refers to our branch of science. This is a list of 

 the birds procured by the Dyak hunters of the Selangor 

 Museum on Gunong Angsi, the highest point of a range of 

 hills in Negri Sembilan, not connected with the main range 

 and covered with heavy timber. The list, we are told by 

 Mr. Robinson, seems to shew that the characteristic 

 Himalayo-Sondaic forms, such as Sibia, Mesia, and Ptery- 

 thrus, do not occur on these mountains, which, so far as our 

 present information goes, are tenanted by typical Malayan 



