476 Recent Literature. [bet! 



Although confessedly imperfect and fragmentary, this contribution 

 to our knowledge of MacGillivray, "the greatest and most original orni- 

 thologist of his day," will be welcomed as portraying the main features 

 of his life and character — his unusual gifts and endearing personality. — 

 J. A. A. 



Penard's Birds of Guiana, Volume II. — As stated in our notice of the 

 first volume (Auk, XXV, Oct., 1908, p. 491), this work ^ is based on first- 

 hand knowledge gained by the authors during a twelve years' residence in 

 Dutch Guiana, and who write of the birds of this interesting country from 

 personal study of them in life. The present volume includes the species 

 from the Toucans to the Thrushes or the Picarise and Passeres, of which 

 a dozen species are described (some of them tentatively) as new. The 

 general character of the work is stated in our notice of the first volume. 

 We congratulate the authors on the completion of this important contri- 

 bution to tropical American ornithology, a work which must form a very 

 useful handbook for the residents of Guiana. — J. A. A. 



Hartert's ' Die Vogel der palaarktischen Fauna. ' Heft VI. = — Part VI 

 carries the work to the end of the Passeres and completes the first volume, 

 for which is issued with this double part a title-page and index. It con- 

 tains the last half of the author's Muscicapida? (= Sjdviidae, Timeliidae, 

 and Turdidae of authors), the Accentoridse, Troglodytidse, and Hirundin- 

 idse, or Nos. 987-1240, begiiming with the genus Turdus. The table of 

 contents of Volimae I occupies pp. xiii-xlix, with which is incorporated as 

 footnotes critical references to the literature bearing on the ornithology 

 of the 'Palaearctic Fauna,' from 1903 to the end of the year 1909. These 

 notes deal with questions of sjTionymy and nomenclature as well as with 

 the status and relationship of the many forms described since the publication 

 of the first five parts of the 'Fauna.' Among the changes of nomenclature 

 are Acanthis linaria in place of A. flammea; Mu^dcapa hypoleuca (Pallas, 

 1764) in place of M. atricapilla; Sylvia cantillans (PaUas, 1764) in place 

 of S. subalpina. Many of the recently described forms are accepted, but 

 a much larger number are consigned to synonymy. Nearly a dozen new 

 subspecies are added in the text and footnotes of the present part, which 



1 De Vogels van | Guyana ! (Surinam, Cayenne, en Demerara) I Door | Frederik 

 Paul Penard | en Arthur Philip Penard 1 — I Tweede Deel | [Design] Uitgave van | 

 "Wed. F. P. Penard | Paramaribo — 8vo., pp. 587, with numerous half-tone text 

 illustrations. On the reverse of the title page it is stated that the first part was 

 published in April, 1908, and the second in May, 1910. Neither volume is dated 

 on the title page. 



- Die Vogel der palaarktischen Faima. Systematische Ubersicht der in Europa, 

 Nord-Asien und der Mittelmeerregion vorkonimenden Vogel. Von Dr. Ernst 

 Hartert. Heft VI (Doppelheft). Seite 641-832. Mit 10 Abbildungen. Berlin, 

 Verlag von R. Friedlander und Solm. Agents in London: "Witherby & Co., 

 326 High Holbom. Ausgegeben im Juni 1910. — 8vo, pp. sdii-xlix +641-834, 

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