1 9 1 7 • ] Recently published Ornithological Works. 1 03 



Mearns on new African Birds. 



[Descriptions of seven new Subspecies and oue new Species of African 

 Birds (Plantain-Eater, Courser, and Rail). By Edgar A, Mearn^,. 

 Smithsonian Miscell. Coll. vol. Ixv. 19l0j pp. 1-9.] 



Of late years the United States National Museum has 

 acquired considerable collections of African Ijirds from the 

 Roosevelt, Childs Friok, and Paul Rainey Expeditions., and 

 Dr. Mearns now issues his thirteenth paper devoted to 

 descriptions of the new forms found among them. It is 

 to be hoped that a more complete account of these collec- 

 tions will appear before long. The forms described are as 

 follows : — 



Tnracns hartlaubi inedius^ Mt. Kenia ; T. h. crissalis, 

 Mt. Mbololo, east of Kilimanjaro ; T. h. coirulescens, Mt. 

 Gargues, B. E. A. ; (Jorijthceola cristata yalensis, Yala River, 



B. E. A. ; Cursorius yuUicus meruensis, Meru River, B. E. A. ; 



C, temminckii jebelensis, Lado Enclave ; Rkinoptilus afri- 

 canus raffertyi, Hawash River, Abyssinia, all new subspecies ; 

 and Sarothrura loringi, Mt. Kenia, new species. 



Murphy and Harper on new Diving-Petrels. 



[Two new Diving-Petrels. By Robert Cushman Murphy and Francis 

 Harper. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. New Tork, xxxv. 1916, 

 pp. 05-67.] 



In this short paper the authors distinguish, by their 

 smaller size, the Diving-Petrels of the Chatham Islands from 

 those of New Zealand (whence came the type of the typical 

 form), under the name Felecanoides winatrix chathamensis . 



They also describe as a distinct species, chiefly on account 

 of the shape of the bill, the Diving-Petrel of South Georgia 

 under the name Felecanoides georgica. 



Murphy on the Teal of South Georgia. 



[Anatidse of South Georgia. By Robert Cushman Murphy. Auk, 

 xxxiii. 1916, pp. 270-277, pi. xiv.] 



This short paper, with a perhaps rather grandiloquent 

 title, deals chiefly with the Georgian Teal ; the only other 

 member of the Anatidse found in South Georgia is the 



