j° 8 ', J Recent Literature. 6q 



the remaining three families. Of the 397 species treated in the volume 

 "only 16 species are wanting to the collection of the Museum, and more 

 than one fourth of them are represented by the types." Of the 23 species 

 and subspecies described as new, or which are newly named, 18 are King- 

 fishers. Our North American Ceryle eabatiisi is described as a new sub- 

 species, under the name Ceryle americana, subspecies p. septentrionalis, 

 trinomials, pure and simple, not being admitted into the 'Catalogue of 

 the Birds in the British Museum.' True eabatiisi is restricted to "Peru." 

 The tropical American Ceryle superciliosa is separated into three 

 subspecies, — the true superciliosa of South America, stictoptera 

 Ridgw. from Mexico and Central America, and cequatorialis (subsp. 

 nov.) from Ecuador. Throughout Mr. Sharpe's portions of the work not 

 only have many new forms been described, but many old ones have been 

 reduced tojfeubspecies. Mr. Grant does pot appear to recognize sub- 

 species; even where forms are shown to intergrade, as in the Trogon 

 caligatus group, thev are either kept separate, or lumped as 'races,' dis* 

 tinguished by the letters A, B, etc., as under Trogon alricollis, where we 

 have "Race A (Trogon alricollis)" and Race B (Trogon tenellus)." 



These useful volumes, with those previously published, bring this great 

 work through the Raptorial, Passerine, 'Scansorial' and Psittacine series, 

 leaving for future volumes the Pigeons and Grouse, the Tinamous, and 

 the Wading and Swimming Birds, which will probably require many 

 additional volumes to the twenty already published. — J. A. A. 



Cory's 'Catalogue of West Indian Birds.' — Mr. Cory's 'Catalogue' 1 is 

 intended to be used in connection with his 'Birds of the West Indies,' the 

 'Appendix' including a number of species not in that work, as well as 

 man}- changes in nomenclature. The 'Catalogue' consists essentially of 

 five parts: (1) a tabular list of the genera and species peculiar to the 

 West Indies (pp. 9--0) ; (2) a bibliography of West Indian ornithology, 

 arranged (a) geographically by islands or groups of islands (pp. 21-60), 

 and (b) chronologically (pp. 61-79); (3) the 'Catalogue' proper (pp. 81- 

 125) ; (4) lists of the species and subspecies peculiar to the different islands 

 (pp. 126-134) ; (5) 'Appendix' (pp. 135-157), consisting of annotations to 

 the 'Catalogue' proper. 



The main 'Catalogue' is briefly annotated with reference to the distribu- 

 tion of the species, but instead of giving the names of the islands in full 

 only the group of islands is mentioned, the separate islands where the 

 species occur being denoted by numerals, a key to which is given in the 

 preface and at p. 80. While this saves space and possibly saved trouble 

 to the author, it entails upon the reader the labor of constant reference to 



'Catalogue | of I West Indian Birds. | Containing a list of all spe.cies known to 

 occur in the Bahama Islands, the I Greater Antilles, the Caymans, and the Lesser 

 Antilles, excepting 1 the Islands of Tobago and Trinidad, I by | Charles B. Cory,— 

 . . . .'[=8 lines of titles, etc.] | — | Published by the Author. | Boston, U. S. A. | 1892,— 

 ^to, pp. i63|andjmap. 



