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to be thoroughly known. Following on Dr. Wm. L. Abbott’s remarkable 
discoveries, noticed recently in these columns, come the results of Mr. 
R. H. Beck’s explorations on the island, carried on in the interests of Mr. 
F. F. Brewster and Dr. L. C. Sanford, during the early part of the present 
year. Mr. Beck visited Mt. Tina and other points in the province of Azua 
and secured numerous specimens of the crossbill and finch discovered by 
Dr. Abbott, and also a new species of ground dove, a new goatsucker and 
a new warbler. These Dr. Chapman has described in the paper before us 
as: Oreopeleia leucometopius (p. 327), Mt. Tina; Microsiphonorhis (gen. 
nov.) brewstert (p. 329), Tubano, allied to Siphonorhis and Microligea 
montana (p. 330), Mt. Tina.— W. S. 
Sclater on the Birds of Yemen.'— Mr. G. Wyman Bury who spent 
a year in the province of Yemen in southern Arabia making zodélogical 
collections for the British Museum in 1912 and 1913, secured a series of 
over 400 bird skins. Eight of these represented undescribed forms which 
have been duly published by Mr. Ogilvie-Grant while Mr. Sclater in the 
present paper lists the entire collection adding the field notes of the collector 
and other comments. In all 111 forms are listed, 27 of which besides the 
new forms had not previously been recorded from southern Arabia. An 
interesting historical note describes the various explorations of southern 
Arabia the earliest of which were those of Forsk4l (1761-63), Hemprich 
and Ehrenberg (1825) and Riippell a little later. Both Forskal and 
Hemprich “ sacrificed their lives to their enthusiasm,” the one dying at 
Yerim and the other at Massowah. A map and a colored plate of Pseuda- 
canthis yemenensis and Accentor fagini complete Mr. Sclater’s interesting 
paper.— W. S. 
Henninger on the Ornithological Work of Dr. E. I. Shores.2— 
The collection and manuscript diary of Dr. Shores having recently come 
into the possession of Mr. Henninger he has prepared a very appreciative 
notice of Dr. Shores, who was apparently born in the late 50’s and who died 
in Schenectady, N. Y., May 6, 1906, and has added the more important 
records contained among his notes. These refer in the main to Suffield, 
Conn. and West Bridgwater, Mass., but there are also records for other 
parts of New England and for Florida. Some of these have already been 
published but those compiling New England lists will do well to consult 
Mr. Henninger’s paper. It is unfortunate that so many collectors who have 
extensive ornithological knowledge have published nothing and too often 
have left not even a manuscript record. When the latter does exist it is 
most commendable for those who may have access to it to make it public 
as Mr. Henninger has done in the present case.— W. 8S. 
1 The Birds of Yemen, south-western Arabia, with an account of his journey thither by 
the collector, Mr.G. Wyman Bury. By W.L.Sclater. The Ibis, April, 1917, pp. 129-186. 
2The Diary of a New England Ornithologist. An Appreciation. Wilson Bulletin, 
March, 1917, pp. 1-17. 
