Vol. XIV"| Recent Literature. 4^7 



1897 J 



contain respectively comments on such occurrences during the jear as 

 seem of special interest, and the observations received froxn the Faioes 

 The paper ends ^vith a map, showing the locations of about eighty 

 Danish lights. — Gerrit S. Miller, Jr. 



Lane's Field-Notes on the Birds of Chili.' - Students of South 

 American birds should be grateful to Dr. Sclater for publishing the valu- 

 able series of notes constituting this paper. Mr. Lane was sent Vo Chih 

 by the late Mr. H. B. James to gather material which, in connection w-ith 

 his own observations, was to be used in a proposed work on Chilian birds. 

 Lane was in the field from November, 1889, to December, 1890, during 

 which time he made collections and observations near Santiago, m the 

 Province of Tarapacd, in northern Chili, and in the Provinces of Arauco 

 and Valdivia and the Island of Chiloe in southern Chili. The notes here 

 eiven by Dr. Sclater from Lane's journals relate to 124 species and are of 

 exceptional interest. They were evidently written by a keen, appreciative 

 observer, and he gives us well-drawn character sketches of birds concern- 

 inc whose life histories we previously had very little reliable information 

 Ot'ten a page or more is devoted to a description of the habits and 

 haunts of a single species and there are particularly satisfactory accounts 

 of such representative Chilian species as members of the ^^n^r^Phyto- 

 toma, Pteropockus, Hylactes, Thinocorus, Nothofrocta and others.-F. M. C 



Richmond on MadagascanBirds.3-As a result of a few months' col- 

 lecting (February to July, 1895) in Madagascar, mainly on the east coast, 

 Dr. Abbott has forwarded to the U. S. National Museum 217 specimens 

 of birds. These are referred by Dr. Richmond to 83 species, one of which, 



^^ialitis thoracica, he has before described,^ while two others, Thalas- 

 \ornis insularis and Cofsychus ine.pectatus, are here for the first time 



described as new. — F. M. C 



An Ohio Grackle Roost.^ — This paper contains the results of one 

 season's work, from the arrival of the Crackles on March 9 to theie 



1 Field-notes on the Birds of Chili. By Ambrose A. Lane. With an Intro- 

 duction and Remarks by P. L. Sclater. The Ibis, January, 1897, PP- 8-51 ; 

 April, pp. 177-195 ; Ju'y- PP- -97-317- Figg. 5. 



"- Cf. Auk, X, 1893, p. 354- 



3 Catalogue of a Collection of Birds made by Doctor W. L. Abbott in Mada- 

 gascar, with Descriptions of three new species. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XIX, 

 pp. 677-694. Received May 19, 1897. 



■«Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., X, 1896, p. 53. 



5 The OberUn Summer Grackle Roost. By Lynds Jones. = Bulletin No. 15, 

 Wilson Ornithological Chapter of the Agassiz Association. Uberlin, Ohio, 

 July 30, 1897. i2mo. pp. 37-56, 2 maps, i cut in text. 



