A.OA. Recent Literature. \\^ 



cantis of the A. O. U. Check-List should stand as Myiarchtis cooperi 

 Baird.— J. A. A. 



Bangs on Birds from Honduras. — This is a report on a collection of 

 birds and mammals made by W. W. Brown, Jr., on the coast of Honduras, 

 at Ceiba and Yaruca, in January and February, 1902. The list of birds 

 numbers 126 species and subspecies, of which four are described as new. 

 The annotations consist of a statement of the number of specimens of 

 each and the localities. About one fifth of the species recorded are North 

 American migrants. — J. A. A. 



McGregor on Philippine Birds.^ — This is the second paper (see Auk, 

 XX, 319) in the series of reports on the zoological collections made for 

 the Philippine Museum, and contains a list of all the identified species 

 collected or observed on a number of expeditions to Benguet Province, 

 Luzon, and to the islands of Lubang, Mindoro, Verde, Cuyo, Aguataya, 

 and Cagayaucillo. The islands and their faunal relationships are briefly 

 described, followed by notes on the rarer species and descriptions of 

 previously unknown plumages, forming an annotated list of about 40 

 species, and about 270 species are recorded from new localities. Pericro- 

 cotus novas Wardlaw Ramsey, previously almost unknown, is described 

 at length, including old and young of both sexes. — J. A. A. 



Code of Botanical Nomenclature. — The May number of the ' Bulletin 

 of the Torrey Botanical Club ' (Vol. XXXI, No. 5, May, 1904, pp. 249-290) 

 contains anew 'Code of Botanical Nomenclature,' prepared by the 'Mem- 

 bers and Alternates of the Nomenclature Commission,' appointed by the 

 Botanical Club of the American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science at a meeting held in Washington, D. C, January 2, 1903. This 

 commission consists of twenty-three members, all prominent American 

 botanists. It appears to have accomplished the task assigned it in a most 

 satisfactory manner, the Code now presented being concise, comprehen 

 sive, and explicit. The Commission "has carefully considered all the 

 principles involved, and has tested the application of the principles to all 

 kinds of cases." It is published in English, French, and German, the 

 English version occupying only 13 pages (pp. 249-261). It has been 

 prepared as a substitute for the Paris Code of 1867, which was found not 

 satisfactorily adaptable to present conditions. It thus bears much the 

 same relation to this code that the A. O. U. Code does to the Stricklandian 



1 Birds and Mammals from Honduras. By Outram Bangs. Bull. Mus. 

 Comp. Zool., Vol. XXXIX, No. 6, pp. 141-159, July, 1903. 



^ Birds from Benguet Province, Luzon, and from the Islands of Lubang, 

 Mindoro, Cuyo, and Cagayaucillo. By Richard C. McGregor. Bulletin of 

 the Philippine Museum, No. 3, Jan. 30, 1904, pp. 16. 



