240 Recent Literature. [ April 



sealing-wax. These not being birds of flight, nor in the least wild, the 

 sailors availing themselves of their gentleness and inability to take wing 

 from their pursuits, easily struck them down with sticks." (White, Journ. 

 Voy. N. S. W., 1790, p. 135). In our estimation, a reproduction of the 

 old accounts of many of these extinct birds woiild have greatly enhanced 

 the value and usefulness of the book. 



Strigiceps leucopogon Lesson, is introduced on page 30, but its identifi- 

 cation is still uncertain. The type was probably in the collection of Dr. 

 Abeille, of Bordeaux, but in any event, if one could only consult the col- 

 lection of colored drawings at one time in Lesson's possession (c/. P. Z. S., 

 1855, 212), its detennination would probably be quite simple.^ 



The following species are described and named as new : Casuarius 

 lydekkeri (p. x), Ara erythrura (p. 54), Necropsittacus ('?) borbonicus (p. 62), 

 Bubo (?) legvMti (p. 71), Strix newtoni (p. 79), Ardea duboisi (p. 114), 

 N^esoenas duboisi (p. 166), Megalapteryx hamiltoni (p. 197), Emeus booihi 

 (p. 210), E. haasti (p. 210), E. parkeri (p. 211), and Dromaius peroni (p. 

 235), the last being a new name for the Kangaroo Island Emu, currently 

 kno^^^l under Vieillot's specific name ater, but, as Mr. Rothschild here shows, 

 the latter was originally proposed by Vieillot to replace Latham's Casuarius 

 novae hollandice. Several nominal species proposed by Forbes are here first 

 given a definite status, \'iz.: Palceocasuarius (p. 219), P. haasti (p. 220), 

 P. velox (p. 220), and P. elegans (p. 220). '' Foudia newtoni," mentioned 

 on p. xi, seems to be a new name for F. flavicans, but if so, is a nomen 

 nitdurn. — C. W. R 



Dearborn on a Collection of Guatemalan Birds.- — The birds recorded 

 in this catalogue were collected between the winter of 1904 and the early 

 part of 1906, a small proportion by Messrs. Edmund Heller and C. M. 

 Barber, but the greater part of them, no less than 1000, by the author of 

 the paper, during the latter part of the period. In all, 1187 specimens, 

 mostly skins, constitute the collection, and these represent the large num- 

 ber of 305 species and subspecies. 



The identifications have apparently been made with care and there are 

 many interesting notes on geographical and other variations. Three new 

 forms are described, — Saucerottea cyanura guatemalce, Diglossa montana 

 and Regulus satrapa clarus, and the range of Terenotriccus erythrurus ful- 

 vigula is extended considerably northward. A remarkable female Rose- 



1 Abeille's collection was an important one, containing about 1500 specimens, 

 including nearly one hundred of Lesson's types (described chiefly in the 'Echo du 

 Monde Savant'). It was probably sold, after Abeillg's death, since a little pam- 

 phlet ('Catalogue des Oiseaux composant la Collection de feu le Dr. Abeille, de 

 Bordeaux,' 44 pp.) was published in 1850, giving a list of the specimens in it. On 

 p. 15, we find Abeillg had one specimen of Strigiceps leucopogon. Here the locality 

 is stated to be "Himalaya." 



2 Catalogue of a Collection of Birds from Guatemala. By Ned Dearborn, Assistant 

 Curator of Ornithology. Field Museum of Natural History, Publication 125. 

 Ornithological Series, Vol. I, No. 3, pp. 69-138, pll. i-iii (maps). November, 1907. 



