Recenthj published Ornithological Works. 629 



102. Schack on Fatio's Collection of Birds. 



[Notice sur la collection d'oiseaux ItSgaiee par M. Victor Fatio au 

 Museum d'Histoire Naturelle de Geneve. Par F. de Schjeck. Bull. Soc. 

 Zool. de Geneve, i. p. 51 (1907).] 



The well-known Swiss naturalist Victor Fatio, whose loss 

 we have lately recorded ('Ibis,' 1906, p. 608), has left his 

 collection of birds and eggs to the Museum d^Histoire 

 Naturelle of Geneva. As this collection contains the speci- 

 mens described or alluded to in Fatio's works on the Fauna 

 of Switzerland, no more appropriate destination could have 

 been found for it. The specimens number 1215, referable 

 to 557 species, of which about one-third are from Switzer- 

 land and another third from other European countries. 

 M. Schseck furnishes us with remarks on 45 of these birds, 

 amongst which are examples of Larus icthyaetus and Xema 

 sabinii, both procured on the Lake of Geneva. 



103. Simon and Hellmayr's Notes on the Nomenclature of 

 certain Trochilidse. 



[Notes critiques sur quelques Trochilidas. Par E. Simon et C. E. 

 Hellmayr. Nov. Zool. xv. p. 1 (1908).] 



This is a series of valuable remarks on the nomenclature 

 of certain Trochilidse, especially those of which the types, 

 in the Museums of Paris and Vienna, have been carefully 

 examined by the authors. They relate to species of the 

 genera Agyrtria, Leucochloris, Oreotrochilus, Heliangelus, 

 Thalurania, Hylocharis, and Chlorestes. It is maintained 

 that Aeronymjiha prosantis of Oberholser is a Heliangelus, 

 and the same as H. rothschildi of Boucard. Basilinna 

 leucotis pygmaa, from Nicaragua, is characterized as a new 

 subspecies. 



104. Snethlage on the Birds of the Rio Purus. 



[Sobre una coUeccao de Aves do Rio Purus, pela Dra. E, Snethlage, 

 Auxiliar da seccao de Zoologia do Museu. Bol. Mus. Goeldi (Museu 

 Paraense), vol. v. pp. 43-76.] 



Madame Snethlage, who is now attached to the staff of 

 the Goeldi Museum at Para, has prepared a list of the birds 



