° '1919" J Recent Literature. 439 



' The Auk,' mention of the new species described in this paper was made 

 in noticing the number of ' The Ibis ' in which it appeared. An examina- 

 tion of the paper in detail is somewhat disappointing and exhibits an ele- 

 ment of carelessness that is quite unexpected when we consider the author 

 ,and his opportunities. It is regrettable in the first place that Mr. Chubb 

 has seen fit to consider such a wide extent of country in one paper. It is 

 almost impossible to keep in mind the details of distribution and the 

 literature of the subject unless we consider one region at a time. In this 

 way too, we learn better what are the probable areas in which differentia- 

 tion may be expected. 



In this paper, although the fact is not indicated in the title, the author 

 describes some new birds from Colombia, and, doubtless because this was 

 somewhat incidental, he apparently forgot Dr. F. M. Chapman's pains- 

 taking work upon the avifauna of that country. The result is that he was 

 not aware that Dr. Chapman had shown that most of Goudot's specimens 

 came from the region of the Quindio Pass and not from Bogota, so that in 

 describing his new form of Chamaepetes he has apparently redescribed the 

 type race, that from Bogota being the unnamed one, if the two are really 

 distinct. 



In his treatment of Odontophorus, while still failing to refer to Chapman's 

 work, his results are decidedly more nearly in accord with it. So much so, 

 in fact, that he recognizes the Panama race of 0. guianensis as distinct, 

 just as Chapman did, and in naming it as a new form he uses the same name 

 as Chapman had previously employed for the same purpose (!) and based 

 his name upon one of McLeannan's skins just as Chapman had done. Too 

 much care cannot be taken in the description of new South American birds, 

 as has been previously pointed out in these columns. So many different 

 authors are engaged in the work that unless exceptional care is exercised 

 it will take a great deal of painstaking research to straighten out the syn- 

 onymy and correct the slips that have been made. — W. S. 



The Ornithological Journals. 



Bird-Lore. XXI, No. 2. March- April, 1919. 



The Warblers of Central New York. By Arthur A. Allen.— Photo- 

 graphs of the Cerulean, Mourning, Chestnut-sided and Blackburnian 

 Warblers and the Chat and an interesting account of their habits. 



Notes from a Traveller in the Tropics. III. From Panama to Peru. 

 By Frank M. Chapman. — Describes the abundant sea bird life off the 

 coast of Peru. 



Purple Martins on Stuart Acres. By F. A. Stuart. Gives the results 

 of five years of bird protection on a Michigan Farm. 1400 bird boxes have 

 been erected. For Martins there were ten boxes in 1914 occupied by 

 46 pairs of birds, while in 1918 there were 222 pairs of these birds. One 

 hundred and eleven species of birds have been noted on the estate, either 

 as residents or transients. 



