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Bangs and Zappey's ' Birds of the Isle of Pines.' — In the 'American 

 Naturalist' for April, 1905, 1 Messrs. Outram Bangs and W. R. Zappey 

 published an annotated list of the birds of the Isle of Pines, off the south- 

 western end of Cuba, based mainly on Mr. Zappey's collections and field 

 notes made in the spring and early summer of 1904. Use has been made 

 also of the specimens and field notes obtained on the island in July, 1900, 

 by Messrs. William Palmer and J. II. Riley, and of the records previously 

 published by Poey, Cory, and Gundlach. The list contains 120 species 

 and subspecies, of which six arc described as new, namely: (1) Ardea 

 repent (closely related to A. occidentalis), (2) Grits nesiotes), (3) Sauro- 

 thera merlini decolor, (4) Prionotelus temnurus vescus, (5) Myadestes eiza- 

 betk retrusus, (6) Spindalis pretrei pinus. Besides the notes on habits 

 and distribution there is critical comment on a number of species. The 

 list is thus a summary of our present knowledge of the birds of this now 

 ornithologically fairly well known island, which lies about 60 miles 

 south of Cuba, with an area about equal to that of the state of Rhode 

 Island. The physical aspects of the island are quite fully described, and 

 there are several photographic illustrations and a map. — J. A. A. 



Bangs on New American Birds.— In a recent paper 2 Mr. Bangs has 

 described seven new subspecies of American birds, as follows: (1) Cryfit- 

 urus soui mustelinus, from the mountains near Santa Marta, Colombia, 

 (2) Scardafella inca dialeucos, from the IIondurus-Nicaragua boundary, 

 180 miles from the Pacific coast; (3) Claravis fretiosa livida, from the 

 Rio Cauca, Colombia ; (4) Geotrygon martinica digressa, from Guade- 

 loupe Island, W. I. ; (5) Dacnis cayana callaina, from Divala, Chiriqui ; 

 (6) Calospiza lavinia cara, from Ceiba, Honduras ; (7) Pluvnicothraupis 

 rubica confinis, from Yaruca, Honduras. Attention is also called to the 

 preoccupation of the names Columba squamosa Temm. & Knip, for which 

 Scardafella ridgivayi should be substituted, and of Columba cinerea 

 Temm. & Knip, for which Claravis prctiosa (Ferrari-Perez) should be 

 adopted. In an earlier paper 3 (not previously here noticed) Mr. Bangs 

 has described two subspecies of Tropical American Flycatchers, namely, 

 Serphophaga cinerea caua, from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Co- 

 lombia, and Todirostrum cinereum fitiitimutn, from San Juan Bautista, 

 Tabasco, Mexico. — J. A. A. 



Thayer and Bangs on the Birds of Gorgona Island, Colombia. — In 



1 Birds of the Isle of Pines. By Outram Bangs and W. R. Zappey. Amer. 

 Nat., Vol. XXXIX, No. 460, April, 1905, pp. 179-215. (Published April 26, 

 1905.) 



2 Descriptions of Seven New Subspecies of American Birds. By Outram 

 Bangs. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, Vol XVIII, pp. 151-156, June 9, 1905. 



3 Two New Subspecies of Tropical American Tyrant Birds, Ibid., Vol. 

 XVII, pp. 113, 114, May 18, 1904. 



