530 Recent Literature. [q%£ 



Lincoln, F. C Description of a New Bob white from Colorado, (do. 

 May 27, pp. 103-104) — Colinus virginianus taylori (p. 103), Laird, Yuma. 

 Co. Colo. 



Ridgway, R. A New Pigeon from Chiriqui, Panama, (do., June 29, 

 1915, pp. 139-140.) — Oencenas chiriquensis (p. 139). 



Cahn, A. R. The Status of Harris's Sparrow in Wisconsin and Neigh- 

 boring States. (Bull. Wise. Nat. Hist. Soc, XIII, No. 2, pp. 102-108.) 



Lowe, John N. The Birds of Green Lake County, Wisconsin, (do., 

 pp. 62-87.) — 209 species listed. 



Pride, A. Notes on the Habits of the Rhea. (Proc. Royal Phys. Soc. 

 Edinburgh, XIX, pp. 200-202.) 



Scharff, R. F. On the Irish Names of Birds. (Irish Naturalist,. 

 May, 1915.) 



Patten, C. J. Eider Ducks at Inishtrahull with Remarks on the Status. 

 of this Bird in Ireland, (do.) 



Greve, C. Early Bird Migration in East Sea, Province of Russland. 

 (Zool. Beobachter, LVI, No. 3.) 



Salvadori, T. Campephaga analis Verr. and Des Murs. (Boll. Mus. 

 Zool. Anat. Comp., XXIX, Dec, 1914.) 



Visher, S. S. Notes on the Significance of the Biota and of Biogeog- 

 raphy. (Bull. Amer. Geogr. Soc, XLVII, No. 7.) 



Lloyd- Jones, Orren. Studies on Inheritance in Pigeons. II. A Mi- 

 croscopical and Chemical Study of the Feather Pigments. (Jour. Exper. 

 Zool., XVIIL pp. 453-500). 



Hartert, E. Notes on Falcons. (Novit. Zool., XXII, pp. 167-185.) 

 All Gyrfalcons are regarded as subspecies of F. rusticolus, F. r. rusticolus 

 inhabits northern Europe; islandus Iceland, candicans Arctic America 

 and Greenland, obsoletus Labrador and urulensis, Siberia. There is much 

 individual variation in color. 



Hartert, E. A Small Collection of Birds from Hausaland, Northern 

 Nigeria, (do., pp. 244-266.) 144 species listed. 



Kirkman, F. B. Dates of Publication of the Sections of the " British 

 Bird Book " (do., p. 386). 



Wild Life. Beautiful illustrations and life histories, mostly of British 

 Birds. In April number, Stone Curlew and Buff-backed Heron; May, 

 Blackcock and Cormorant; June, Wood Lark, and Shoveller; July, 

 Kestrel, Hobbie and Ringed Plover. 



Ogawa M. Notes on Mr. Alan Owston's Collection of Birds from the 

 Islands lying between Kiushu and Formosa. (Annotations Zoologicse 

 Japonensis, V, Part IV, pp. 175-232, pll. IX-XI, Tokyo Zool. Soc, 

 July, 1905.) — Geocichla major (p. 178), Amami-Oshima ; Merula celcenops 

 yakushimensis (p. 180) Yakushima; Zosterops japonica insularis (p. 186), 

 Tanegashima and Yakushima; Corvus macrorhynchvs osai (p. 196), Loochoo, 

 Isls., Picas oicstoni (p. 203), Amami-Oshima; and Nannocnus ijima> (p. 215), 

 Yagachi, Okinawashima and Ishigaki, are described as new. The whole, 

 list totals 124 species and there is a table showing the fauna of each island 



