552 Recent Literature. Loct. 



Chapman on New Colombian Birds.^ — Mr. Chapman in this paper, 

 which is prehminary to a detailed one now in preparation, presents the 

 first report on the results of the ornithological investigations of the 

 American Museum expedition to Colombia, which was planned and 

 directed by him, and with which he was personally associated from 

 March to June, 1911. This contribution consists of a brief outUne of the 

 personnel and itinerary of the expedition to date, with a map and diagnoses 

 of 40 new species and subspecies of birds. 



While most of these are from the Cauca region, the Paramo of Santa 

 Isabel and other parts of western Colombia others are from Santa Marta, 

 and one, Synallaxis gularis cinereiventris, from Merada, Venezuela. The 

 distinctness of these latter forms was brought out by a study of the 

 Cauca material. The interest which attaches to this paper will make all 

 students of the Neotropical avifauna eager for the appearance of Mr. 

 Chapman's detailed report. — W. S. 



Chapman on a New Ibis from Mt. Kenia. - — Mr. and Mrs. C. E. 

 Akeley have presented to the American Museum a pair of Ibises with their 

 nest, a portion of an egg-shell, and three young, which they collected on 

 Mt. Kenia, British East Africa, in September, 1910. Mr. Chapman finds 

 that the specimens represent not only a new species but a new generic type, 

 most nearly related to Hagedashia but resembling in some respects Lopho- 

 tibis and Lampribis. He has named the species Oreoibis akleijorum . — W. S. 



Richmond on New Birds from the West Coast of Sumatra. " — The 



collections made by Dr. W. L. Abbott in 1903 and 1904 on islands off the 

 west coast of Sumatra, and presented to the United States National Mu- 

 seum, have yielded the following new forms which are here named and 

 described by Dr. C. W. Richmond. M uscadivores consobrina babie?isis, 

 Pulo Babi; Thriponax javensis buttikoferi, Nias Island; Dicceian suma- 

 tranum batuense, Batu; Alcedo meninting proxima, North Pagi; Copsychus 

 saularis pagiensis, North Pagi. — W. S. 



Beebe on New Blood Pheasants.* — Mr. Beebe's study of the specimens 

 of Pheasants obtained on the Kuser-Beebe Expedition has brought to light 

 the existence of two undescribed forms of Blood Pheasant which are here 



1 Diagnoses of apparently new Colombian Birds. By Frank M. Chapman. 

 Bulletin Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., XXXI, Art. xvi, pp. 1.39-166. July 23, 1912. 



2 A New Ibis from Mt. Kenia, British East Africa. By Frank M. Chapman. 

 Bulletin Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., Vol. XXXI. Art. xxi, pp. 235-238. August 6. 

 1912. 



3 Descriptions of Five New Birds from the West Coast of Sumatra. By Charles 

 W. Richmond. Proc. Biol. Soc. of Washington. Vol. XXV, pp. 103-106, 

 June 15 [ = 14), 1912. 



* New Blood Pheasants. By C. WiUiam Beebe. Zoologica, Scientifle Contribu- 

 tions of the New York Zoological Society, Vol. 1, No. 10, pp. 189-193. Aug. 17. 

 1912. 



