314 Recent Literature. [April 



Cuba. (Ibid., pp. 22, 223-224.) Cinnamon Teal, (Querquedula cyanop- 

 tera.) [In Spanish.] 



Heikertinger, Franz. An Attempt to Solve the Problem: How can 

 the Native Country and Geographic Distribution of a Species be Indicated 

 through a brief addition to its Specific Name? (Zool. Anzeiger, L. pp. 

 41-54. 1918.) — This paper should prove of interest to students of nomen- 

 clature, who find their field of activity narrowing through the gradual 

 settling of the older points of dispute. Without attempting to explain 

 the meaning of the various prefixes and suffixes proposed, we may say that 

 the Puffin, Fratercula arctica appears, as " Dufraterclus oarcticus." [In 

 German.] 



Lebedinsky, N. G. On the Form of the Under Mandible in Birds. 

 (Ibid., pp. 36-31.) [In German.] 



Publications Received. — Bangs, Outram. (1) Notes on the Species 

 and Subspecies of Pcecilonitta Eyton. (Proc. N. E. Zool. Club, VI, pp. 

 87-89. October 31, 1918.) (2) A New Genus of Caprimulgidse. (Ibid., 

 pp. 91-92.) (3) A New Race of the Black-throated Green Warbler. 

 (Ibid., pp. 93-94). (4) Notes on South American Short-eared Owls. 

 (Ibid., pp. 95-98.) (5) The Races of Dendroica vitellina Cory. (Bull. 

 Mus. Comp. Zool., LXII, No. 11, January, 1919.) (6) Types of Pachy- 

 cephala littayei Layard. (Ibis, October, 1918.) 



De Fenis, M. F. Contribution a l'Etude des Cris et du Chant des 

 Oiseaux dans ses Rapports avec la Musique. (Bull, l'lnst. Gen. Psycho- 

 logique. Juliet-Decembre, 1917, pp. 87-130.) 



Dwight, Jonathan. Description of a New Race of the Western Gull. 

 (Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 32, pp. 11-14, February 14, 1919.) 



Grinnell, Joseph, Bryant, H. C, and Storer, Tracy L. The Game 

 Birds of California. University of California Press, Berkeley, 1918. Large 

 8vo, pp. i-x + 1-642, 16 colored plates, 94 text figures. Cloth, $6.00 net. 



McAtee, W. L. Food Habits of the Mallard Ducks of the United 

 States. (Bull. 720 U. S. Dept, Agric, pp. 1-35, December 23, 1918.) 



Mathews, Gregory M. The Birds of Australia, VII, Pt. IV, December 

 19, 191S. 



Miller, Carrie Ella. Birds of Lewiston-Auburn and Vicinity. Pp. 1-80, 

 Lewiston Journal Co., Lewiston, Maine. Price 50 cents paper, $1.00 cloth. 



Oberholser, H. C. Mutanda Omithologica, V. (Proc. Biol. Soc. 

 Wash., 32. pp. 7-8, February 14, 1919.) 



Riley, J. H. Two New Genera and Eight New Birds from Celebes. 

 (Ibid., 31, pp. 155-160, December 30, 1918.) 



Shufeldt, R. W. Notes on the Osteology of the Young of the Hoatzin 

 (Opisthoco?nvs cristatus) and Other Points on its Morphology. (Journ. 

 Morphology, 31, No. 3, December, 1918.) 



Stone, Witmer. Birds of the Panama Canal Zone, with Special Refer- 

 ence to a Collection made by Mr. Lindsey L. Jewel. (Proc. Acad. Nat. 

 Sci. Phila., 1918, pp. 239-280, November 30, 1918.) 



