638 Recently published Ornithological J forks. 



103. Nelson on a new Mexican Goatsucker. 



[Description of a new Species of Whip-poor-will. By E. W. Nelson. 

 Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, xviii. p. Ill (1905).] 



This "strongly-marked species," now named Antrostouws 

 notabilis, is the same as the bird called Antrostomvs macro- 

 mystax in Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway's ' Birds of North 

 America ' (ii. p. 400), but incorrectly so, according to 

 Mr. Nelson. The type from Tamaulipas, Mexico (Sennett), 

 is in the American Museum of Natural History. 



101. Oates and Reid on the Birds' Eggs in the British 

 Museum. 



[Catalogue of the Collection of Birds' Eggs in the British Museum 

 (Natural History). Vol. IV. Carinatae (Passeriformes continued). By 

 Eugene W. Oati d by Capt. Savile G. Reid. London. Printed 



by Order of the Trustees. 1905. 352 pp. ; \iv. coloured plates.] 



In the fourth volume of the Catalogue of the Birds' Eggs 

 in the National Collection the enumeration and description 

 of the eggs of the Oscininc Passeres is continued. The 

 Families treated of are the same as those in the fourth volume 

 of the ' Hand-list,' the nomenclature and arrangement of 

 which are closely followed. 



Altogether 17 Families containing 620 Species arc treated 

 in this volume. The specimens of eggs number 14,917. A 

 description is given of the general characters of the eggs of 

 every species and their measurements are added. After this 

 the exact locality of each batch of eggs and the authority is 

 stated, the number of eggs in each batch being also added. 

 But no description of the mode of nesting or of the nest 

 itself is given, although in many cases these must be well 

 known. Such particulars might certainly have been stated 

 under each generic head, and would have much increased 

 the value of the f Catalogue/ 



Fourteen coloured plates are attached to the fourth volume 

 of the ' Catalogue/ and are, no doubt, correctly drawn and 

 coloured. About twenty eggs are figured ou each plate, 

 many of which are of great beauty and entire novelty. But 

 as we turn them over and admire them we are seized with 



