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African cocks lay eggs characteristic of their own species with no sign of 

 the male influence (Xenia) in the eggshells. 



Mottram, J. C, and Green, F. W. E. Some Aspects of Animal Colora- 

 tion from the Point of View of Color Vision. Pt. II. (Science Progress, 

 XIII, No. 5.) — Worthy of careful study by students of protective colora- 

 tion. 



Collinge, W. E. The Preservation of Game Birds and its Relation to 

 Agriculture. (Ibid.) 



Kuroda, Nagamishi. Notes on Corean and Manchurian Birds. (Annot. 

 Zool. Japonensis, IX, pt. IV.) [In English.] Annotated list of 204 speci- 

 mens with a distributional table of all species known from these countries. 



Wilson, F. Erasmus. An Ornithological Trip to the Nhill District. 

 (Victorian Naturalist, XXXV, pp. 93-100.) 



Quijada, Bernardino. Birds of Chile and a Discussion of their Spanish 

 Names. (Bol. del. Mus. Nac. — Santiago. X, pp. 5-27.) — Twenty- 

 eight species. 



Oberholser, H. C. Mutanda Ornithologica, IV. (Proc. Biol. Soc. 

 Wash. XXXI, pp. 125-126.) 



Owing to shifting the generic name Tanagra to the Euphonias, the 

 following names become preoccupied and substitutes are here proposed. 



Euphonia viltata Scl. becomes Tanagra catasticta nom. nov. (p. 125); 

 E. aurea pileata becomes T. a. cynophora n. n. (p. 126); E. violacea magna 

 becomes T. v. pampolla n. n. (p. 126); E. lanirostris peruviana becomes 

 T. 1. zopholega, n. n. (p. 126) and E. olivacea becomes T. minuta Cab. 



Baker, E. C. Stuart. The Game Birds of India, Burma and Ceylon. 

 (Jour. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, XXV, No. 4.) — Genera Pucrasia and 

 Chrysolophus. 



Whistler, H. Notes on the Birds of Ambala District, Punjab. (Ibid.) 

 — Annotated list, to be continued. 



Publications Received. — Beebe, William. A Monograph of the 

 Pheasants. Volume I. Published under the Auspices of the N. Y. Zoologi- 

 cal Society by Witherby & Co., London, 1918. Price $62.50 per volume. 

 Royal quarto. 



Beebe, William. Jungle Peace. New York, Henry Holt and Company. 

 1918. Price, $1.75 net. 



Chapman, Frank M. Our Winter Birds. New York, D. Appleton &■ 

 Company. 12 mo. pp. 1-180, 1918. Price, $1.25 net. By mail, $1.35. 



Lawler, George A., and Earnshaw, Frank L. Game Laws for 1918. 

 Farmers' Bulletin 1010 United States Department of Agriculture. Octo- 

 ber, 1918. 



Miller, Leo E. In the Wilds of South America. New York. Charles 

 Scribners' Sons, 8vo, pp. 1-424 1918. Price, $4.50. 



National Association of Audubon Societies. Fourteenth Annual Re- 

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Riley, J. H. Annotated Catalogue of a Collection of Birds made by 



