454 Recent Literature. \q^ 



the Arctic Coast, N. W. T., Canada. (Summary Rept., Geol. Survey 

 Canada for 1915.) 



Parsons, W. C. A Little Nature Study of the Wood Duck and his 

 Family. (Forest and Stream, September, 1916.) 



West, C. S. Family Life of the Ruffed Grouse. (Ibid.). 



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

 Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, January, 1916.) 



Osmuston, A. E. Curious Habits of Woodpeckers in the Kumaan 

 Hills. (Ibid.) — Boring; holes similar to those of Sphyrapicus. The work 

 is attributed to Hypopicus hyperythris. 



Robinson, H. C, and Kloss, C. Boden. Diagnoses of Some New Species 

 and Subspecies of Mammals and Birds obtained in Korinichi, W. Sumatra, 

 June, 1914. (Jour. Straits Branch Royal Asiat. Soc. 1916.) — New birds 

 are Pisorhina vanderwateri (p. 275), Serilophus lunatus intensus (p. 276), 

 Turdinulus epilepidotus dilutus (p. 276), Turdus indrapuroe (p. 277), 

 Cryptolopha sumatrensis (p. 277) and Dicaeum beccarii (p. 278) all from 

 Korinchi and Cryptolopha muhleri (p. 278) from Barong Bhara, Barisan 

 Range. 



Salvador!, Tommaso. Historical Account of the Ornithological Collec- 

 tion of the Turin Museum. (Mem. R. Acad, delle Scienze di Torino II, 

 LXV, No. 5.). — List of types and cotypes is appended. [In Italian.] 



Publications Received. — Bangs, Outram. (1) The American Forms 

 of Gallimda chloropus (Linn.). (Proc. N. E. Zool. Club, V, pp. 93-99, 

 May 17, 1915.) (2) A Collection of Birds from the Cayman Islands. 

 (Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., LX, No. 7, March, 1916.) 



Brooks, Earle A. The Food of West Virginia Birds. Published by 

 Hon. Howard E. Williams, State Commissioner of Agriculture, Charleston,. 

 W. v., 1916, pp. 1-74. 



Buturlin, S. A. (1) A Short Review of the Nuthatches (Fam. Sittidae). 

 (Travaux Soc. Imp. Nat. Petrogi-ad., XLIV, Nov. 2, 1916.) (2) Notes on 

 Palsearctic forms of Pinicola enucleator (L.) (Messager Ornith. 1915, 

 p. 239.) 



Carnegie Museum, Pittsburg. (1) Nineteenth Annual Report of the 

 Director for the year ending March 31, 1916. (2) Founders Day, 1916. 



Chapman, F. M. The Travels of Birds. D. Appleton and Co. 1916. 

 12mo., pp. 1-160. Price 40 cts. 



Cherrie, George K. Two New Birds from Venezuela. New Birds 

 from the Collection of the Collins-Day Expedition to South America. 

 (Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., XXXV, pp. 389-397, June 16, 1916.) 



Chubb, Charles. The Birds of British Guiana, Based on the Collection 

 of Frederick Vavasour McConnell, Camfield Place, Hatfield, Herts. With 

 a Preface by Mrs. F. V. McConnell. Vol.1. London: Bernard Quaritch, 

 11 Grafton Street, W. 1916. Roy. 8vo, pp. i-liii + 1-528, pll. I-X. 

 Edition limited to 250 copies. £2. 2s. net. 



Cory, Charles B. Descriptions of Apparently New South American 



