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scientific name except in a reference to the origin of the domestic pigeon. 

 The A. O. U. numbers are given in parentheses and the A. O. U. vernacular 

 names are used with the addition of others when necessary. Thus is a 

 matter that seems to trouble many bird students, easily disposed of! If 

 the use of scientific names were limited to scientific publications there 

 would be far less criticism of the changes in them. Miss Miller's little 

 book is an excellent model for a present day local list for the use of the 

 amateur bird student who wishes a reliable and helpful hand book. — W. S. 



Recent Papers by Bangs. — In ' The Auk ' 1918, p. 441, Mr. Arthur 

 T. Wayne states that on two occasions he saw Black-throated Green 

 Warblers, in the maritime region of South Carolina, building a nest and 

 carrying nesting materials during April. Mr. Bangs l now describes one 

 of these April birds as a new subspecies and states that Mr. Wayne sent 

 him a series of seven specimens all of which differed from northern birds 

 in the same way — i. e., in duller coloration and smaller bill. The new 

 form is named D. virens waynei (p. 94). In another paper 2 he discusses 

 the species of the genus Paecilonitta as it is now to be spelled, following the 

 original publication. He recognizes P. bahamensis bahamensis (Linn.), 

 Florida to Brazil; P. b. rubrirostris (Vieill.), from southern South America; 

 P. galapagensis Ridgw., Galapagos Isls.; P. spinicauda (Vieill,) southern 

 South America; and P. erythrorhyncha (Gmel.), Madagascar and Africa. 



Peles (p. 92) is proposed 3 by Mr. Bangs as a new genus for Caprimulgus 

 binotatus Bp. — A review of the South American Short-eared Owls 4 

 leads him to recognize three neotropical races. These are Asiof. breviauris 

 (Schlegel) from southern South America; A. f. bogotensis Chapman, from 

 the Bogota Savanna, and A.J. sanfordi (p. 97) subsp. nov., from the Falk- 

 land Islands. 



Another paper 5 deals with the races of Dendroica viteUina Cory, and a 

 new form is described from Swan Island which Mr. Bangs names D. v. 

 nelsoni (p. 494). It is somewhat intermediate between the other forms — 

 the typical race of Grand Cayman and D. v. crawfordi Nicoll, from Little 

 Cayman and Cayman Brae. — W. S. 



Economic Ornithology in Recent Entomological Publications.— 

 Items pertaining to this subject continue to accumulate slowly. Those on 

 hand pertain to the following insects: 



1 A New Race of the Black-throated Wood Warbler. By Outram Bangs. Proc. N. E. 

 Zool. Club., Vol. VI, pp. 93-94, October 31, 1918. 



1 Notes on the Species and Subspecies of Peecilonilta Ey ton. By Outram Bangs. Ibid., 

 pp. 87-89. October 31, 1918. 



» A New Genus of Caprimulgidee. By Outram Bangs. Ibid., pp. 91-92. October 31, 

 1918. 



* Notes on South American Short-eared Owls. By Outram Bangs. Ibid., pp. 95-98. 

 February 8, 1919 



6 The Races of Dendroica viifllina Cory. By Outram Bangs. Bull. Mus. Compar. 

 Zool. Vol. LXII, No. 11, pp. 493-495. January, 1919. 



