128 Recent Literature. [jan. 



Bird Protection in the Prussian Chamber of Deputies. 

 Ornithologische Monatsberichte. 1 Vol. 22, No. 9. September, 

 1914. (In German). 

 The Thrush; a Composer among Birds. By C. Schmitt and H. Stadler. 

 On Paradise Birds from Keiser Wilhelm's Land. By H. Keysser. 



Ornithological Articles in Other Journals. 2 



Miller, L. H. Bird Remains from the Pleistocene of San Pedro, Cali- 

 fornia. (Bull. Dept. Geol., Univ. of Cal. Publ., VIII, No. 4.) — Species 

 apparently all recent, Gavia and Diomedia new to American paleontology. 



Martin, E. W. The Birds of the Latin Poets. (Leland Stanford Jr. 

 Univ. Publ., series 13.) — Intended " to present in their own words a toler- 

 ably full picture of the Roman attitude toward bird-life as reflected in their 

 greatest poets." 



Oberholser, H. C. Four new Birds from Newfoundland. (Proc. Biol. 

 Soc. Wash., XXVII.) — Dryobates pubescens microleucus (p. 43); Bubo 

 virginianus neochorus (p. 46); Perisoreus canadensis sanfordi (p. 49) and 

 Pinicola enucleator eschatosus (p. 51). 



Mearns, E. A. Diagnosis of a New Subspecies of Gambel's Quail from 

 Colorado. (Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XXVII, July 10, 1914.) — Lophortyx 

 gambellii sanus (p. 113), Olathe, Colo. 



Riley, J. H. On the Remains of an Apparently Reptilian Character in 

 the Cotingidae. (Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XXVII, July 10, 1914.) — An ap- 

 parently closed pore was found on the back of the tarsus of Carpodectes and 

 eleven other genera of the Cotingidae, considered to be possibly analogous 

 to the femoral pores of reptiles. 



Riley, J. H. An Apparently new Sporophila from Ecuador. (Proc. 

 Biol. Soc. Wash., XXVII, Oct. 31, 1914.) — Sporophila incerta (p. 213), 

 Gualia, Ecuador. 



Wetmore, Alex. A New Accipiter from Porto Rico with Notes on the 

 Allied Forms from Cuba and San Domingo. (Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 

 XXVII, July 10, 1914.) — Accipiter striatus venator (p. 119), Cerro Gordo. 



Jackson, H. H. T. The Land Vertebrates of Ridgeway Bog, Wisconsin: 

 their Ecological Succession and Source of Ingression. (Bull. Wise. Nat. 



1 Edited by Dr. A. Reichenow. Published by R. Friedlander & Son, Berlin, 6. 

 Kailstr 11. (Monthly) 6M. per year. 



2 Some of these journals are received in exchange, others are examined in the 

 library of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. The Editor is under 

 obligations to Mr. J. A. G. Rehn for a list of ornithological articles contained in the 

 accessions to the library from week to week. 



The scarcity of articles from the continent of Europe, owing to the war, is 

 noticeable. In this connection it may be mentioned that the records of the 

 Philadelphia Academy library show a decrease of 1000 books and pamphlets re- 

 ceived since August 1, 1914, as compared with the same period in 1913. 



