Recently published Ornithological Works. 617 



following new subspecies are characterized : — Oryzoborus 

 angolensis brevirostris, Empidochanes fuscatus fumosus, and 

 Formicivora consobrina microsticta. The Formicariidse of 

 Cayenne are very numerous. No less than 55 species are 

 catalogued, and 6 others are stated as being " likely to 

 occur there/' 



87. The Budgett Memorial Volume. 



[The Work of John Samuel Budgett, Balfour Student of the University 

 of Cambridge, being a Collection of his Zoological Papers together with 

 a Biographical Sketch by A. E. Shipley, F.K.S,, and Contributions by 

 Richard Assheton, Edward J. Bles, Edward T. Browne, J. Herbert 

 Budgett, and J. Graham Kerr. Edited by J. Graham Kerr. Cambridge. 

 1vol., 4to. 1907.] 



No better memorial could have been devised of our much- 

 lamented friend, the late John Samuel Budgett, and the 

 excellent work that he did in his short lifetime, than the 

 collection of zoological papers contained in the handsome 

 volume now before us. It has been carefully edited by 

 Prof. Graham Kerr, with additions furnished by him and 

 other friends from the materials left unfinished at Budgett's 

 death. Although Budgett did not profess to be an orni- 

 thologist, he was a careful observer of bird-life, as will be 

 seen from some passages in Mr. Shipley's biographical sketch 

 which heads the volume. His studies were mainly devoted 

 to other Classes of Vertebrates, but he wrote a careful 

 and instructive paper on the '' Birds of the Gambia River,'' 

 which was published in this Journal in 1901 (pp. 481-497), 

 and is reprinted in the Memorial Volume. 



88. Carriker on Birds from Costa Rica. 



[Brief Descriptions of some new Species of Birds from Costa Rica, and 

 a Record of some Species not hitherto recorded from that Country. By 

 M. A. Carriker, Jr. Ann. Carn. Mus. iv. Nos. 3 & 4 (1906).] 



Mr. Carriker describes Formicarius castaneiceps and 

 Sporophila crissalis as new species based on specimens 

 collected by himself in Costa Rica and now in the Carnegie 

 Museum. Seven species are, moreover, recorded as additions 

 to the Costa-Rican Avifauna. 



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