102 Recent Literature. ["t uk 



Mr. Riley has also recently described a new flycatcher from Grenada 

 and St. Vincent as Myiarchus oberi nugator.^ — J. A. A. 



Dubois's ' Synopsis Avium.' 2 — Since our last notice of this work it has 

 been concluded by the publication of fasciculi XIII-XVI, completing 

 the Herodiones and containing the Grallatores, Palamedete, Anseres, 

 Steganopodes, Gaviae, Tubinares, Pygopodes, Impennes, Apteryges, Casu- 

 arii, Rhea', and Struthiones ; also the Supplement and the alphabetic 

 tables, or indexes, to the genera, species and subspecies, and the system- 

 atic table of the orders and families. 



According to the author's ' postface,' the 'Synopsis' includes 12,509 

 species and 3969 subspecies, or a total of 16,478 species and subspecies, 

 apportioned among 2252 genera. The orders number 23, and there are 

 145 families. 



The author's plan and purpose, and the system of classification adopted, 

 has already been explained in our notices of the first fasciculus (Auk, 

 XVII, 1900, p. 81), and of Part I (Auk, XIX, 1902, p. 409). As said 

 before, the ' Synopsis' is constructed very nearly on the plan of the late 

 G. R. Gray's ' Hand List of the Genera and Species of Birds,' completed 

 in 1S71, and, including the ' supplement,' brings the subject down to 

 the early part of 1902. The supplement (pp. 1053-1118) contains the 

 'genera, species, and subspecies, and many corrections of nomenclature, 

 which appeared during the publication of the work (1S99-1902) too late to 

 be included in it, the new species and subspecies alone numbering 

 respectively 510 and 642. It is the author's plan to issue additional sup- 

 plements from time to time, thus keeping the work up to date. While 

 the classification is far from modern, the author is to be congratulated 

 on the completion of so arduous and useful an -undertaking, which ren- 

 ders so conveniently accessible references to the original descriptions and 

 figures of the world's ornis.— J. A. A. 



Madarasz's ' An Extraordinary Discovery in Ornithology.' — This is a 



1 Description of a new Myiarchus from Grenada and St. Vincent, West 

 Indies. Smithsonian Contributions (quarterly issue), Vol. XLVII, 1904, pp. 

 275, 276. Published Nov. 8, 1904. 



2 Synopsis Avium | — | Nouveau | Manuel d' Ornithologie | par | Alphonse 

 Dubois I Docteur en sciences naturelles, | Conservateur au Musee Royal 

 d'Histoire naturelle de Belgique, | Officier de l'Ordre de Leopold, | Membredu 

 Comite internationale et permanent d' Ornithologie, | de la Commission per- 

 manente d' etude des Collectiones de Musde de 1' Etat Independant du Congo, 



I Membre honoraire, correspondant ou effective de plusiers Societes savantes. 

 I — I Deuxieme Partie | (1902-1904) | — | Bruxelles | H. Lamertin, editeur 

 I 20, Rue du Marche-au-Hois. | — 1904 — Roy. 8vo, pp.i-x +73 1 _I 339- pU- c °l- 

 xiii-xvi. ' 



