lot) Recent Literature. [.Jan. 



Greater Kei Island are new. Halcyon chloris keiensis (p. 494); Porphyrio 

 mertoni (p. 498) and Cinnyris zenobia marginata (p. 494). (In German.) 



Roth, E. Bird Protection on the German sea-coasts. (Zool. Beo- 

 bachter LV, No. 7.) (In German.) 



Gerhardt, Ulrich. On the Morphology of the Penis in Birds. (Zool. 

 Anzeiger, XLIV.) (In German.) 



Knauer, Fr. New Results of Bird-handling Experiments. (Zool. Beo- 

 bachter LV, No. 7.) (In German.) 



Tschusi, Victor Ritter von. History of Ornithology in Stiermark. 

 (Mitth. Naturw. Ver. fur Stiermark XL VIII.) (In German.) 



Salvadori, T. and Festa, E. The Zoological Expedition of Dr. E. Festa 

 to the Island of Rodi: Birds. (Boll. Mus. Zool. Anat. Comp., Torino, 

 XXVIII, No. 673.) (In Italian.) 



Someren, Dr. V. G. L. von. The African Brown-bellied Kingfisher, 

 Halcyon semicceruleus. (Jour. E. African and Uganda Nat. Hist. Soc, 

 IV, No. 8, Aug., 1914.) — With excellent plates. 



Dobbs, C. M. Notes on Crested Cranes at Kericho. (Jour. E. Air. 

 and Uganda, Nat. Hist. Soc, IV, No. 8, Aug. 1914.) 



Williams, R. B. Some Notes on Birds in Sarawak. (The Sarawak 

 Museum Journal, II, pt. 1, No. 5.) 



North, Alfred J. The Birds of New South Wales. (Brit. Asso. Adv. 

 Sci., 1914 Handbook of N. S. Wales.) — A brief popular resume of the 

 bird fife. 



Haswell, W. A. Birds of Australia. (Federal Handbook of Australia, 

 1914.) — Similar to the last. 



' Brabourne, Lord and Chubb, Charles. A Key to the Species of the 

 Genus Crypturus with Descriptions of Some New Forms. (Ann. Mag. Nat. 

 Hist., XIV, 1914.) — No less than nine new races are here described as well 

 as Crypturellus (p. 322), a new genus with C. tataupa as type. 



Roberts, Austin Notes on Birds in the Collection of the Transvaal 

 Museum with Descriptions of several New Subspecies. (Ann. Transvaal 

 Mus., IV, August 22, 1914.) — Lophoceros nasutus maraisi (p. 170), Rho- 

 desia; Rhinopomastus cyanomelas intermedins (p. 171), Koedoes River, 

 Zoutpansberg Dist.; Anthus daviesi (p. 172), Matatiele, E. Griqualand; 

 Anthoscopus caroli hellmayri (p. 174), Mapagone; Tarsiger stellatus chirin- 

 densis (p. 175), Chirinda Forest, S. E. Rhodesia; Centropus pymi (p. 175), 

 Kaffraria; Chlorophoneus olivaceus taylori (p. 178), Indhlovudwalile, E. 

 Transvaal. 



Laubmann, A. Scientific Results of the Expedition of Dr. Erich Zug- 

 wayer in Balulschistan, 1911. The Birds. (Abhandl. Kongl. Bayerischen 

 Akad. der Wissenschaften Math.-physik. Klasse XXVI, 1914.) — A fully 

 annotated list of 89 species with discussion of allied forms, distribution, etc. 



Huxley, Julian S. Courtship of the Crested Grebe. (Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 London, No. XXXV, 1914.) This is a remarkably minute and painstaking 

 study of behavior. The grebes in any of their activities are grotesque look- 

 ing birds, and the curious stereotyped series of actions that constitute their 



