1915 J Recent Literature. 263 



(Jour. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, November, 1914, pp. 183-196.) — Two 

 beautiful colored plates of Sand Grouse. 



Stevens, H. Notes on the Birds of Upper Assam (do.) — A well 

 annotated list containing in the present installment 243 species. The 

 preservation of the original form of a word is carried to the extreme of 

 refusing to change the termination of the specific name to agree with the 

 gender of the genus! 



Harrington, H. H. Notes on the Indian Timeliides and their Allies 

 (continued), (do. pp. 311-340.) — A careful discussion of the relationship 

 of the genera and species, with descriptions and distribution. The follow- 

 ing new forms are proposed: Trochaic- pterum erythrocephalum woodi (p. 317) 

 Burma; Pomatorhinus horsfieldi trancoreensis (p., 333), Peermall, S. India; 

 P. ruficollis bakeri (p. 336), Shillong. 



$ Baker, E. C. Stuart. On a Small Collection of Birds from the Meshmi 

 Hills, N. E. Frontier of India. (Records of the Indian Museum, IX, pt. V, 

 pp. 251-254.) — A list of ten species containing much information on 

 Ithaginis cruenlus kuseri. 



Wait, W. E. The Distribution of Birds in Ceylon and its Relation to 

 recent Geological Changes in the Island. (Spolia Zeylanica, X, December, 

 1914, pp. 1-32.) — An important paper consisting of detailed data on dis- 

 tribution upon which generalizations are based. Of the two faunal divi- 

 sions of Ceylon, the Northern tract which is allied to the Carnatic area of 

 the Indian peninsula, contains absolutely identical species; but the relation 

 of the Southern Hill tract to the Malabar Coast is more remote, consisting 

 only in " close correspondence of type." 



Warren, E. A Case of Hybridism among Cockatoos. (Annals Natal 

 Mus. Ill, pp. 7-28, pi. Ill, September, 1914.) — A male Cacatua galerita 

 mated with a female Licmetis nasica and two hybrids were reared. They 

 showed an intimate mixture of characters and no simple Mendelian rela- 

 tionship was exhibited. A considerable discussion of hybrids between 

 wild species with relation to Mendelism follows. 



Benham, Professor. The Nomenclature of the Birds of New Zealand: 

 being an Abstract of Mathew's and Iredale's Reference List. (Trans. & 

 Proc, New Zealand Inst., XLVI, pp. 188-204.) 



Philpott, Alfred. Notes on the Buds of Southwestern Otago. (do. 

 pp. 205-212.) 



Hill, H. The Moa-Legendary, Historical and Geological: Why and 

 when the Moa disappeared, (do. pp. 330-351.) 



Magnan, M. A. On the Length of the Tail and the Acuteness of the 

 Wing in Birds. (Bull. Mus. Nat. Hist. Nat. Paris, 1913, No. 8, pp. 622- 

 631.) [In French.] 



Raspail, Xavier. Ornithological Observations made on the Belgian 

 Coast, 1877-78. [In French.] 



Tschusi zu Schmidhoffen, Viktor Ritter. Ornithological Gleanings 

 from Austro-Hungary. (Zool. Beobachter, LV, Nos. 9-11, pp. 236-243, 

 291-297, September and November, 1914.) [In German.] 



