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A second paper ^ gives a brief account of the trip, with annotated lists of 

 sixty species found on the Aleutians and twenty-two noted in Bering Sea 

 in July. Interesting accounts of the habits of many of the species are 

 given and two Asiatic birds are recorded for the first time in North 

 America — Hypocentor rustica the Rustic Bunting, of which two dead speci- 

 mens were found and one more shot by Mr. Wetmore on Kiska Island and 

 Calliope calliope the Ruby-throated Nightingale of which Mr. McKechnie 

 shot one specimen on the same island. A specimen of Aestrelata nearest to 

 A. fisheri was obtained at the entrance to Kiska Harbor. — W. S. 



Nelson and Goldman on New Birds from Panama. — Mr. E. A. 



Goldman's collections while on the Smithsonian Biological Survey of 

 Panama during the winter of 1910-11 have yielded several new species. 

 He finds in studying the Kingfishers ^ which he obtained that two distinct 

 races have heretofore been united under Ceryle septentrionalis Sharpe. 

 The more northern one to which Sharpe's name is found to apply ranges 

 the whole length of Mexico to southern Texas while the one which is here 

 named C. americana isihmica ranges from Guatemala to Panama. In 

 another paper' Mr. E. W. Nelson describes two new forms of Nun Birds 

 obtained by Mr. Goldman. — Monasafidelis and M. similis each based on 

 a single specimen. — W. S. 



Mearns on New African Birds. — Dr. E. A. Mearns* presents descrip- 

 tions of seven new species of African Grass Warblers as a result of his study 

 of the material obtained by the Smithsonian African Expedition. Four of 

 these, Cisticola subruficapilla aequatorialis,-C. s. borea, C. strangei kapi- 

 tensis, and C. hypoxantha reichenowi were obtained by himself; two, C. 

 alleni and C. difficilis, by Dr. Glover M. Allen who was collecting in 

 British East Africa at the same time that Dr. Mearns was there, and one, 

 C. prinioides kilimensis was obtained by Dr. W. L. Abbott in 1888. 



In a later paper,^ Helionympha raineyi obtained on the Rainey African 

 Expedition is described from the Telek River, Sotik District. — W. S. 



» Notes on Birds Observed During a Brief Visit to ttie Aleutian Islands and Bering 

 Sea in 1911 By A. C. Bent. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Vol. 56, 

 No. 32, pp. 1-29, Feb. 12, 1912. 



2 A New Kingfisher from Panama. By E. A. Goldman. Smithsonian Mis- 

 cellaneous Collections, Vol. 56, No. 27, pp. 1-2, December 1, 1911. 



3 Descriptions of two New Species of Nun Birds from Panama. By E. W. 

 Nelson. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Vol. 56. No. 37, pp. 1-2. Feb- 

 ruary 16, 1912. 



* Descriptions of Seven New African Grass-warblers of the Genus Cisticola. 

 By Edgar A. Mearns. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. Vol. 56, No. 25, 

 pp. 1-6, Nov. 23, 1911. 



' Description of a New Species of Sun Bird, Helionympha raineyi, from British 

 East Africa. By Edgar A. Mearns. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Vol. 

 56, No. 28, p. 1, Nov. 28, 1911. 



