438 Recently iJublisJied Ornitholoyicai Works. [Ibis, 



Chapman on new Antillean Birds. 



[Desci'iptious of new Birds from Santo Dorainofo and Remarks on 

 others in the Browster-Sanford Collection. By Frank M. Chapman. 

 Bull. Amer. Mas. N. R., New York, xxxvii. 1917, pp. 327-334.] 



Mr. R. H. Beck, who lias been collecting for Messrs. 

 Brewster and Sanford in South America, has recently 

 passed several months in Santo Domingo collecting both 

 on. the coast and in the mountainous interior, and 

 Mr. Chapman in this paper describes three interesting 

 new species obtained there. These ai'e Oreopeleia leuro- 

 metopius, sp. n., a Ground-Dove allied to 0. [or Geotri/f/on] 

 caniceps of Cuba, but very distinct not only in markings 

 but in the form of the primaries ; Microsiphonorhis bretvsteri, 

 gen. et sp. n., a Goat-sucker or Night-Havvk near Siphuno- 

 rhis americanns of Jamaica which is supposed to be now 

 extinct ; and Microli'jea montana, sp. n., allied to but 

 obviously specifically distinct from AI. pulustris (Cory) of 

 the same island and the only known species of the genus 

 up to now. 



Mr. Chapman appends some interesting remarks on Loxia 

 megaplaga, the Santo Domingan White-winged Crossbill, and 

 Brachyspiza capensis antillarum, both described last year by 

 Mr. Riley (see supra, p. 256), of which a good additional 

 series was secured by Mr. Beck. 



Clark and Adames' Phenological Observations. 



[Report on the Phenological Observations in the British Islands, from 

 December 1914 to November 1915. By J. Edmund Clark, B.A., B.Sc, 

 and Henry B. Adames, F.R.A.S. Quart. Journ. R. Meteor. Soc. xlii. 

 1916, pp. 233-265.] 



The results of the observations made by numerous corre- 

 spondents in the British Islands on the earliest dates of the 

 flowering of certain selected flowers and the first appearance 

 of certain birds and insects are all here presented in a series 

 oi: tables. They are arranged to show the differences fi'om 

 the mean of series of years. Thus in the spring of 1915 the 



