98 Recent Literature. i. “i 
Paleornis and Conurus, as adopted in Ridgway’s ‘Birds of North and 
Middle America,’ are nowhere indicated. — W. 8. 
Shufeldt on Fossil Birds. — A portion of the right femur of a bird, 
larger than any now known in North America, which was found in Miocene 
(Salkehatchie Ooze) formation of the Stone River, South Carolina, is named 
by Dr. Shufeldt! who regards it as related to the Anseres, Palwochenoides 
mioceanus (p. 347). 
In another paper? treating of the Bermuda ‘ bird-caves’ he gives a popu- 
lar summary of a much more comprehensive paper to appear later else- 
where. To this is added an ‘ Addendum’ rather longer than the paper 
itself, in which new species based upon the bones found in the caves are 
described. ‘These were intended for the later paper which is now indefi- 
nitely postponed, although references to the unpublished plates are here 
given! Unfortunately in two instances, no definite type specimens are desig- 
nated in the descriptions and considering the number of species repre- 
sented in the deposits and the fact that the new forms recently described 
in ‘The Auk’ (1916, pp. 194-195), probably represent some of them, serious 
questions of synonymy are likely to arise, which carelessness systematic 
work of this sort will further complicate. The new species named by Dr. 
Shufeldt are Puffinus mcgalli (p. 630), P. parvus (p. 632) and Afstrelata voci- 
ferans (p. 633). Measurements are given under only one of the species 
and while the other descriptions refer in detail to the amount of material 
described and figured in the unpublished paper, it is questionable whether 
enough data are here presented to constitute a recognizable description. 
—W. 8. 
Peters on a New Swift from Santo Domingo.*— In working over the 
collection made in a trip to Santo Domingo during the winter and spring 
of 1916, in the interests of the Museum of Comparative Zodlogy, Mr. 
Peters finds the resident Collared Swift much blacker on the sides of the 
head than birds from Cuba and Jamaica and upon this difference estab- 
lishes a new race, Streptoprocne zonaris melanotis (p. 37).— W.S. 
Riley on New Birds from Santo Domingo.‘— This paper describes 
‘three new birds recently obtained by Dr. William L. Abbott, of Philadelphia 
on an expedition to Santo Domingo, and presented to the U. 8. National 
Museum. He visited the highlands of the interior where few zodlogical 
1 New Extinct Bird from South Carolina. By R. W. Shufeldt. Geological Magazine 
(VI) Vol. III, No. 626, pp. 343-347. August, 1916. 
2 Bird-Caves of the Bermudas. By R. W. Shufeldt. The Ibis. October, 1916. pp. 
623-635. 
3A New Swift from Santo Domingo. By James Lee Peters. Proc. N. E. Zoél. Club, 
VI, pp. 37-38, Nov. 23, 1916. 
‘Three Remarkable New Species of Birds from Santo Domingo. By J. H. Riley. 
Smithsonian Misc. Collns. 66, No. 15. December 1, 1916, pp. 1-2. 
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