370 Recent Literature. [july 



cussion of relationships and nomenclature, and incidentally comment is 

 made upon various species from other parts of South and Central America. 

 Five new forms are described from Surinam and thirteen from other places 

 — Panama, Mexico, St. Vincent, Trinidad, etc., while two new genera 

 are erected; Helicolestes for Falco hamatus, and Hypocnemoides for Hypoc- 

 nemis melanopogon. Thirteen names not in current use have been revived 

 and recognized. 



The paper is a valuable contribution to the ornithology of a region upon 

 which comparatively little has been written in late years. — W. S. 



Riley on a New Bullfinch from China. 1 — A single specimen of a 

 Bullfinch from Peking recently presented by Mr. Geo. D. Wilder to the 

 U. S. National Museum proves to belong to an undescribed race allied to 

 Pyrrhula erythraca from Sikhim but widely separated geographically. Mr. 

 Riley names it in honor of its discoverer, P. e. wilderi. — W. S. 



McGregor on New or Noteworthy Philippine Birds. 2 — This con- 

 tribution consists of notes on twenty-two species of birds Philippine, includ- 

 ing an additional record of the Monkey-eating Eagle, Pithecophaga jeffreyi, 

 an account of a living specimen of Leucotreron tnerrilli with a colored plate. 

 For this species the new subgeneric name Neoleucotreron, (p. 2) is proposed,. 

 The other notes deal mainly with terns, shore-birds and swifts. — W. S. 



Gabrielson on the Birds of Clay and O'Brien Counties, Iowa. 3 — 



This list of 136 species is the result of a number of field trips during several 

 years prior to 1912. It is not presented with any idea of its being complete 

 but mainly because conditions in the last few years have so altered the 

 region that any record becomes of great interest. Extensive draining, 

 the author tells us has destroyed almost all the swamps and ponds, and 

 he goes on to say: " Where in 1909 and 1910 cat tails and other aquatic 

 vegetation, teeming with bird life, flourished, solid fields of corn now 

 stand and the birds have vanished." Unfortunately this is not the only 

 spot where such changes are going on and he who saves for posterity some 

 record of the original faunal conditions deserves the highest commenda- 

 tion.— W. S. 



Recent Papers on Bird Preservation. — The Annual Report of the 

 State Ornithologist of Massachusetts 4 is as usual full of interesting matter 

 to the conservationist. We learn with regret of the depletion of the Heath 



i A New Bullfinch from China. By J. H. Biley. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., Vol. 31, pp. 

 33-34. May 16, 1918. 



2 New or Noteworthy Philippine Birds, II. By Bichard C. McGregor. Philippine 

 Jour, of Science, D. Vol. XIII, No. 1, pp. 1-19. January, 1891. 



3 A List of the Birds of Clay and O'Brien Counties, Iowa. By Ira N. Gabrielson. Proc. 

 Iowa Acad, of Sciences, Vol. XXIV, 1917. pp. 259-272. 



4 Tenth Annual Beport of the State Ornithologist of Massachusetts. By E. H. Forbush. 

 pp. 1-27. 1918. 



