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A number of families more or less currently recognized are suppressed, 

 and we are left in doubt as to the author's allocation of them ; in other 

 cases families that actually inosculate are widely separated. Of course no 

 lineal arrangement can be made to express the affinities of groups that 

 have multiple alliances. On the whole the arrangement here presented 

 appears to be about as satisfactory as any we have seen, it differing not 

 very widely from several of the later systems. — J. A. A. 



Clark on New Birds from St. Vincent, W. I. — In working up the birds 

 collected by himself on the island of St. Vincent during 1903-04 Mr. 

 Clark has found four new forms that he considers as entitled to recogni- 

 tion. These are Euplionia Jiavifrons X'iscii'ora, 1 inhabiting Grenada, St. 

 Lucia, and Martinique, as well as St. Vincent; Holoquiscalus dispar, 2 

 Buteo antillarum, allied to Buteo p/atypterus, but smaller and more 

 rufous; and Urubitinga anthracina cancrivora. We await with interest 

 the publication of his report on the results of his extended ornitholog- 

 ical explorations in the Lesser Antilles. — J. A. A. 



Mearns on New Philippine Birds. — This preliminary paper on Dr. 

 Mearns's ornithological work in the Philippine Islands during the years 

 1903-04 contains descriptions of eight new species,* with notes on seven 

 others new to the islands. The name Carpophaga for a genus of Fruit 

 Pigeons is shown to be preoccupied and is replaced by Muscadivora, 

 nom. nov. Dr. Mearns, aided by other members of the Philippine Scien- 

 tific Association, collected over 1000 birds in the military department of 

 Mindinao during 1903 and 1904, comprising 216 species. The more ex- 

 tended paper that may be expected to appear later on this collection can- 

 not fail to increase greatly our knowledge of the birds of this particular 

 district. — J. A. A. 



Shelley's ' Birds of Africa,' Vol. IV, Pt. I.— The first part of Volume IV 

 of Shelley's 'Birds of Africa,' 4 just to hand, includes the first two sub- 



1 Description of a New Euphonia from the Southern West Indies. By Aus- 

 tin H. Clark. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, Vol. XVIII, pp. 19-22, Feb. 2, 

 1905. 



3 Preliminary Descriptions of Three New Birds from St. Vincent, West 

 Indies. By Austin H. Clark. Ibid., pp. 61-64, Feb. 21, 1905. 



3 Descriptions of Eight New Philippine Birds, with Notes on other Species 

 new to the Islands. By Edgar A. Mearns, Major and Surgeon, U. S. Army. 

 Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, Vol. XVIII, pp. 83-90, Feb. 21, 1905. 



4 The I Birds of Africa, | comprising all the species which occur | in the | 

 Ethiopian Region. | By | G. E. Shelley, F. Z. S., F. R. G. S., &c. | (late 

 Grenadier Guards), | author of "A Handbook to the Birds of Egypt," | "A 

 Monograph of the Sun-Birds," etc. | — | Volume IV. | Part I. | — | London : 



I published for the Author by | R. H. Porter, 7, Princes Street, Cavendish 

 Square, W. | 1905. — Roy, 8vo, pp. viii -|- 287, pll. col. xxix-xxxv. Price 31s. 

 6d. net. 



