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tance, for even if we ultimately adopt broader genera than we do today, we 

 must know more of the interrelations of the groups of species which are 

 included within them, and which for taxonomic purposes must be distin- 

 guished by group names of some kind, even though not recognized nomen- 

 claturally.— W. S. 



Chapin on New Birds from the Belgian Congo. ^ — Mr. Chapin 

 who accompanied Mr. Herbert Lang on an expedition to the Belgian 

 Congo in the interests of the American Museum of Natural History is now 

 engaged in working up the ornithological collections which they secured 

 during then- six yeai-s' sojourn (1909 to 1915). These comprise some 6200 

 skins representing about 600 species, and the present paper is the first 

 publication based upon this material. Mr. Chapin's new species are 

 Chcetura melanopygia (p. 509), Apaloderma minus (p. 510) and Ceriocleptes 

 (gen. nov.) xenurus (p. 512) all from Avakubi, Ituri District, Belgian 

 Congo. Further publications upon this rich collection will be awaited 

 with interest. — W. S. 



Riley on New Birds from China and Japan.^ — From material re- 

 ceived by the U. S. National Museum from China and Japan, Mr. Riley 

 has described three new forms as follows: Tetrastes hoiiasia vicinitas 

 (p. 16), and Dryocopus martins silvifragus (p. 162) from Hakodate, Japan, 

 and Eophona melanura sowerbyi (p. 163) from Chang Kow Hsien, Hupeh 

 China.— W. S. 



Recent Ornithological Papers by Dabbene.=* — In the ' Anales of the 

 Buenos Aires Mus., XXVII,' Mr. Dabbene proposes (p. 76) a new genus 

 Neophloeotomns for the woodpecker, known as Phlwotomus schulzi Cab. and 

 also describes an alhed new species N. shiptoni (p. 79) from the province 

 of Cordoba, with a colored plate of the male and female. 



In two other short papers he reports Manacus m. gutturosus, Harpiprion 

 cayennensis, Dendrocygna discolor and Sporophila pileata from Argentina, 

 all of them being new to the fauna. — W. S. 



1 Descriptions of Three New Birds from the Belgian Congo. By James P. 

 Chapin. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., XXXIV, Art. XVI, pp. 509-513. New 

 York, October 20, 1915. 



- Descriptions of Three New Birds from China and Japan. By J. H. Riley. 

 Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, XXVIII, pp. 161-164, September 21, 1915. 



3 Description d'un Nouveau Genre et d'line Nouvelle Espgce de Pic Provenant 

 du Nord-Ouest de la Republique Argentine, por Roberto Dabbene. An. Mus. 

 Nac. Hist. Nat. Buenos Aires, XXVII, pp. 74-81, July 8, 1915. 



Una ave nueva para la Argentina, por Roberto Dabbene. Bol. Soc. Physis. 

 I, No. 7, pp. 435-436, Dec. 1914. 



Otras especies de aves nuevas. por. Roberto Dabbene. do. pp. 532-533, 

 June 10, 1915. 



