426 Recent Literature. [f^ 



Besides several papers on Russian and Transcaucasian birds there are 

 the following: 



On the Ornithology of Turkestan. By N. A. Sarudny — Urinator 

 arcticus suschkini and Cerchneis naumanni turkestanicus subspp. nov. 



Parus bokharensis and its races. By N. A. Sarudny and S. I. Bilkewitsch 

 — P. b. iliensis and P. b. dzungaricus subspp. nov. 



A new Creeper. By W. B. Banikowski — Certhia familiaris buturlini 



Ornithological Articles in Other Journals. 



Hilgert, C. Laniarius funebris degener subsp. nov. Described from 

 South Somaliland. L. f. atrocceruleus subsp. nov. from Abyssinia appears 

 in the same paper., (Novitates Zoologicse, XVIII, No. 3, pp. 605-606.) 



Hartert, E. Notes on Paradisseidae. Falcinellus astrapioides and 

 Astrapia rothschildi with two plates. (Novitates Zoologies, XVIII, No. 

 3, p. 604.) 



Salvidori, T. Note on Comirus ceruginosus and allied species. (Novi- 

 tates Zoologicse, XIX, pp. 84-85.) 



Rothschild, W. and Hai-tert, E. Ornithological Explorations in 

 Algeria. (Novitates Zoologicse, XVIII, pp. 456-550, with fifteen plates 

 illustrating the character of the countrjO — Comprises an interesting 

 introduction and annotated list of 230 species, Coloeus monedula cirtensis, 

 and Galerida thecklce hilgerti subspp. nov. 



Mathews, Gregory M. Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. 

 (Novitates Zoologicse, XVIII, pp. 171-455.) — This is essentially a new 

 edition of the author's ' Handlist of the Birds of Australia ' published in 1908 

 and is made necessary by the fact that the Handlist did not conform in its 

 nomenclature with the International Code. The number of species or sub- 

 species listed is 1151, of which the enormous number of 537 are here de- 

 scribed as new! Several new genera also appear. 



Van Oort, E. D. On /Estrelata aterrima (Bonap.). (Notes from the 

 Leyden Mus., XXXIV, No. II, p. 70.) 



Schonteden, H. Le Balaeniceps roi. (Rev. Zoologique Africaine I., 

 fasc. 3, pp. 347-352, fig. 1, ppl. XIX-XX.) 



Maguan, A. Morphologie stomacale en fonction du regime alimentaire 

 chez les Oiseaux. (Ann. Sci. Nat., Zool., XV, pp. 1-42.) 



Publications Received.— Bowles, J. H. and Howell, A. B. The. 

 Shore Birds of Santa Barbara. (The Condor, XIV, 1912, pp. 4-11.) 



Bryant, H. C. The Relation of Birds to an Insect Outbreak in Northern 

 California during the Spring and Summer of 1911 (The Condor, XIII, 

 1911, pp. 195-208). 



Chapman, Frank M. Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America. 

 Revised Edition. New York and London, D. Appleton and Co., 1912. 

 Library Edition $3.50. Pocket Edition $4.00. 



