Recently published Ornithological Works. 631 



frequently alluded to in the writings of Poey, Gundlach, 

 Cory, and Ridgway, has not yet had a monographer at work 

 upon its birds. Mr. Bangs has therefore done well in joining 

 Mr. Zappey (who has twice visited the island and made 

 large collections of its birds and field-notes upon them) in 

 preparing the account of its Avifauna now before us. The 

 Isle of Pines is so near to Cuba, and has been so recently 

 separated from it, in a geological sense, that it could not be 

 expected to produce many endemic forms. But some few of 

 its 83 feathered inhabitants have become so far differentiated 

 from the Cuban representatives as, according to the views of 

 the authors, to justify their separation. The changes under- 

 gone are, we are told, " chiefly in sizes and proportions," 

 the colours remaining nearly the same. Thus Ardea repens 

 (subsp. nov.) is similar to A. occidentalis, but " very much 

 smaller " ; Grus nesiotes (sp. nov.) is like G. mexicana, but 

 smaller and darker; Saurothera merlini dicolor (subsp. nov.) 

 is also smaller than the Cuban form ; Prionotelus temnurus 

 vacuus is again smaller than P. t. typicus ; Myiadestes- 

 clizubethce retrusus is of the same size as M. elizabetJics of 

 Cuba, but much paler in colour; and Spindalis pretrei pinus 

 is considerably larger than the typical species from the main 

 island. We may remark that the supposed new subspecies 

 of Myiadestes is based on a single specimen, which, in our 

 opinion, is hardly sufficient for the establishment of a 

 subspecies. 



Mr. Zappey contributes some good field-notes to this 

 paper and some nice illustrations to the text, taken from his 

 photographs. 



93. Chapman on the American Flamingo. 



[A Contribution to the Life-history of the American Flamingo {Phceni- 

 copterus ruber), with Remarks upon Specimens. By Frank B. Chapman. 

 Bull. Am. Mus. N. H. xxi. p. 58.] 



This is the scientific version of Mr. Chapman's successful 

 researches among the breeding-grounds of the American 

 Flamiugo in the Bahamas, of which we have already noticed 

 the popular narrative published in the ' Century Magazine * 



