258 Recent Literature. [April 



Beebe, William. A Second Imperial Parrot. (N. Y. Zoological Soci- 

 ety Bulletin, January, 1918.) 



Clarke, W. Eagle. Wild Life in a West Highland Deer Forest. (Scot- 

 tish Naturalist, December, 1917.) 



Criddle, Norman. The Red-tailed Hawk in Manitoba. (Ottawa 

 Naturalist, October, 1917.) 



Monro, J. A. Notes on the Winter Birds of the Okanagan Valley. 

 (Ibid., November, 1917.) 



Tinsley, H. G. The Elusive Blue Quail of Texas. (Forest and Stream, 

 March, 1918.) 



Allen, A. A. Preserving Black Duck and Canvasback. (Bull. Amer. 

 Game Protective Assoc, October, 1917.) 



Job, H. K. The Audubon Society Experiment Station. (Ibid.) 



How a Ruffed Grouse Drums. By F. K. Vreeland. (Ibid., January, 

 1918.) — A series of excellent photographs. 



Oberholser, H. C. Description of a New Subspecies of Perisoreus 

 obscurus. (Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., Vol. 30, December 1, 1917.) — P. o. 

 rathbuni (p. 185). Lake Crescent, Washington. 



Bangs, O. Vertebrata from Madagascar. Aves. (Bull. Mus. Comp. 

 Zool., LXI, No. 14, February, 1918.) — An annotated list of 110 species. 

 Oena capensis aliena (p. 491); Phalacrocorax africanus pictilis (p. 500); 

 Anhinga vulsini (p. 501) and Agapornis madagascariensis ablectanea (p. 

 503) are described as new. 



Hartert, Ernst. On the Crested Larks of the Nile Valley. (Novitat. 

 Zool., Vol. XXIV, No. Ill, December, 1917.) 



Hartert, Ernst. Notes on Pheasants. (Ibid.) — Complete list of genus 

 Phasianus. 



Hartert, Ernst. A Few Notes on the Birds of Yemen. (Ibid.) — 

 Anthus sordidus arabicus (p. 457); A. s. sokotrae (p. 457); Cisticola 

 cisticola arabica (p. 458) ; Parisoma blanfordi distincta (p. 459) ; Monticola 

 rufocinerea sclateri (p. 459). 



Hartert, Ernst. The Subspecies of Cyanopica cyanus. (Ibid.) C. c. 

 interposita (p. 493) Tai-pai-shan, Tsin-ling Mts. 



Hartert, Ernst, and Goodson, Arthur. Further Notes on South 

 American Birds. (Ibid.) Cymbilanius lineatus intermedins (p. 495) 

 Rio Madeira, Brazil; Thamnophilus punctalus interpositus (p. 496) 

 " Bogota "; Th. doliatus tobagensis (p. 497) Tobago; Th. bernardi baroni 

 (p. 498) Yonan River, Peru; Synallaxis unirufa meridana (p. 498) Andes of 

 Merida, Ven.; Sclateria ncevia trinitatis (p. 499) Trinidad; and Pseudo- 

 colaptes boisonneantii meridce (p. 499) Vale of Merida, are described as new. 



Pettitt, E. E. Some Further Notes on the Cuckoo. (Wild Life, IX. 

 No. 11-12, November and December, 1917.) — Contains numerous half- 

 tones and popular articles on birds. 



Stephens, T. C. Birds of the Past Winter, 1916-1917, in Northwestern 

 Iowa. (Proc. Iowa Acad. Sci., XXIV.) 



Gabrielson, Ira N. A List of the Birds Observed in Clay and O'Brien 

 Counties, Iowa. (Ibid.) — 136 species. 



