Recently published Ornithological Works. 361 



from almost the same ground that G. K. Cherrie worked in 

 autumn and winter, on the Rio Grande de Terraba. Among 

 the 6000 specimens obtained the following are described as 

 new species or subspecies : — Micrastur interstes, Gymno- 

 cichla nudiceps erratilis, Synallaxis albescens latitabunda, 

 Dendrocolaptes sancti-thomce hesperius, Leptopogon pileatus 

 fausius, Cya7ierpes lucidus isthmicus, and Bicarremon costa- 

 ricensis. Glaucis hirsuta ceneus is also reinstated, and twelve 

 other birds are stated to be new to Costa Rica. Mr. Ferry 

 has articles in July and October on the birds of extreme 

 Southern Illinois made between Feb. 22nd and 28th and Au2:. 

 10th and 24th, Mr. Seton in January on those of the Great 

 Slave Lake, Mr. Clark ou those of Alaska, Mr. Allen on 

 those of the Green Mountains in Vermont, and Mr. Wayne 

 on those of Charleston. 



We must not omit, moreover, to mention three papers in 

 January by Messrs. Eifrig, Wood, and Porter on the long- 

 continued migration-period of 1907; an account by Dr. 

 Roberts o£ a great destruction of Lapland Longspurs in Min- 

 nesota and Iowa in 1904; and in other lines Mr. Buturlin^s 

 paper on the Blue-throat of Alaska, Mr. Townsend's on 

 Brewster's Warbler, Mr. Peabody's on the Crossbill of 

 Wyoming, Mr. Wayne's on the season of breeding of the 

 Barn-Owl, Mr. Oberholser's on Ayelaius phmniceus arctolegus. 

 subsp. n. (near A. fortis), and articles on Hybrid Humming- 

 birds and Ducks by Messrs. Thayer and Bangs and Mr. 

 Bigelow respectively. 



Finally, we must notice Dr. Allen's article on the generic 

 names Mycteria and Tantalus of Linnaeus, 1758, and the 

 account of the twenty-fifth meeting of the A. O. U. by 

 Mr. Sage. 



29. ' The Avicultural Magazine.' 



[Avicultural Magazine. Tlie Journal of the Avicultural Society. New 

 series, Vol. v, Nos. 9-12 ; Vol. vi. Nos. 1-5 (July 1907-]March 1908.] 



These numbers contain many papers of great interest to 

 aviculturists, and perhaps a larger proportion than usual of 



