° 1912 J Recent Literature. 559 



Seth-Smith, David. On the Moulting of the King Penguin (Apteno- 

 dytcs -pennanti) in the Society's Gardens (Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1912, 

 pp. 60-62). Illustrated by photographs. 



Crandall, Lee S. The Carohna Parrakeet. (N. Y. Zool. Societj^ 

 Bulletin, No. 49, Jan., 1912). — Eleven specimens known to be living in 

 Zoological Gardens. 



Beebe, C. Wm. and Burtch, Verdi. Storm Bound Ducks. (N. Y. 

 Zool. Society Bulletin, No. 51, May, 1912). On Lake Kenka. cf. also 

 editorial in same number on The Tragedy of the Grebes deahng with the 

 freezing of the New York lakes. 



Publications Received. — Barrows, Walter B. Micliigan Bird Life 

 Published by the Michigan Agricultural College. 1912. 



Beebe, C. WilUam. New Blood Pheasants. Zoologica. Scientific 

 Contributions of the New York Zoological Society, Vol. 1, No. 10. August 

 17, 1912. pp. 189-193. 



Bryant, Harold C. The Present and Future Status of the Cahfornia 

 Valley Quail. (The Condor, XIV, 1912, pp. 131-142). 



Chapman, Frank M. Diagnoses of apparently new Colombian Birds. 

 (Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., XXXI, pp. 139-166. July 23, 1912) . 



Chapman, Frank M. A new Ibis from Mt. Kenia, British East 

 Africa. (Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., XXXI, pp. 235-238. August 6, 

 1912). 



Gladstone, Hugh S. A Catalogue of The Vertebrate Fauna of Dum- 

 friesshire. J. Maxwell & Son, Dumfries, 1912. 



Grinnell, Joseph. A systematic List of the Birds of California. 

 Pacific Coast Avifauna No. 8. Cooper Ornithological Club, Hollywood, 

 California. August 30, 1912. 



Horsbrugh, Major Boyd. The Game-Birds and Water Fowl of South 

 Africa, with colored plates by Sergeant C. G. Davies. Part 2. London. 

 Witherby & Co. July 2, 1912. 



Mathews, Gregory M. The Birds of Australia. Vol. II. Pt. 2. 

 London. Witherby & Co. July 31, 1912. 



Miller, M. DeW. A Revision of the Classification of the Kingfishers. 

 (BuU. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., XXXI, pp. 239-311. September 12, 

 1912.) 



Oberholser, Harry C. A Revision of the Subspecies of the Green 

 Heron (Butorides virescens [Linnaeus]) (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 42, pp. 529- 

 577. August 29, 1912). 



Oliver, W. R. B. Geographic Relationships of the Birds of Lord Howe, 

 Norfolk and the Kermadec Islands. (Trans. New Zealand Institute 

 XLIV, 1911, pp. 214-221. June 10, 1912.) 



Palmer, T. S., Brewster, C. E., and Earnshaw, F. L. Game Laws for 

 1912. U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Farmer's Bull. 510. 



Palmer, T. S. Directory of Officials and Organizations concerned with 



