498 Recent Literature. [Oct. 



Contains excellent photographs of a live Trumpeter Swan and the nest 

 of a Dipper. 



In a list of exceptionally large and other unusual sets Mr. R. M. Barnes 

 gives a list of species in the nests of which he has found eggs of the Cowbird. 



The Ibis. X Series, VI, No. 3. July, 1918. 



Remarks on Hawks of the Genus Micrastur. By W. L. Sclater. With 

 colored plate of the recently described M. plumbeus Sclater. 



Ornithological and Oological Notes from the River Somme Valley at its 

 mouth and near Peronne. By Major W. M. Congreve. 



Further Ornithological Notes from the Neighborhood of Cape San 

 Antonio, Province of Buenos Ayres. Part I. Passeres. By Ernest 

 Gibson. — A valuable account in the form of a fully annotated list by a 

 resident of the country for over forty years, with an interesting descriptive 

 and historical preface. 



A List of the Birds of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, based on the Collec- 

 tions of Mr. A. L. Butler, Mr. A. Chapman and Capt. H. Lynes and Major 

 C. Cristy. By W. L. Sclater and C. Mackworth-Praed. Part I, Corvidae- 

 Fringillidse. This is an important technical paper as might be inferred 

 from the wealth of material upon which it is based. In the course of their 

 critical studies the authors have had occasion to describe several new 

 forms both from the Sudan and from adjoining regions. We note the 

 following: Estrilda astrild gaboonensis (p. 443), new name for E. rubri- 

 ventris Sharpe and Shelley, (nee Vieill.), Anomalospiza butleri (p. 460) 

 Lado Enclave; Serinus mozambicus tando (p. 465), North Angola; S. m. 

 aurifrons (p. 466) Sennar. 



Further Notes on Birds Observed at Alix, Buffalo Lake, and Red Deer 

 in the Province of Alberta, Canada, in 1915 and 1916. By Charles B. 

 Horsbrugh. 



Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. No. CCXXX1V. 

 May 22, 1918. 



Dr. Hartert described as new Dicceum trigonostigma megastoma (p. 74), 

 Nat una Isls.; D. t . flaviclunis (p. 75), Java. 



Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. No. CCXXXV. 

 July 25, 1918. 



The following new forms were described : By Lord Rothschild; Lioptilus 

 abyssinicus ansorgei (p. 78) Mucuio, Benguella; by Dr. Hartert, Phcenicurus 

 frontalis sina (p. 78), Kansu, China; by Mr. Charles Chubb, Myrmophila 

 vavasouri (p. 83), Ituribisi River, British Guiana; Rhopias spodionota 

 juninensis (p. 84), Junin, Peru; Cercomacra cinerascens immaculata (p. 84), 

 Supenaam River, British Guiana; C. tyrannina saturatior (p. 85), Ituribisi 

 River, British Guiana; C. t. pallescens (p. 85), Esmeraldas, Ecuador; 

 Rhopoterpe torquata equatorialis (p. 85), Sarayacu, E. Ecuador; Hylopezas 

 macularia macconelli (p. 86), Ituribisi River, British Guiana; Grallaricida 

 nana kukenamensis (p. 86), Kukenam Mts., British Guiana; Furnarius 

 leucopus hauxwelli (p. 87), Pebas, Peru; and Lochmias nematura castano- 

 nota (p. 87), Kukenam Mts., British Guiana. 



