230 Recent Literature. [^"J' 



Richmond. The generic name Callocalia Gray, 1840, is shown to be 

 antedated by Salanga I. Geoft'r., 1S37. — J. A. A. 



Richmond on Birds from the Coast and Islands of Northwest Suma- 

 tra.' — This collection, consisting of about 450 specimens, representing 

 about T40 species, was also made by Dr. W. L. Abbott, whose untiring 

 efforts have done so much in recent years to enrich the collections of 

 birds and mammals in the U. S. National Museum. The present collec- 

 tion was made during a five months' cruise along the northwest coast of 

 Sumatra and adjacent islands. Nineteen of the species Dr. Richmond 

 has described as new, including 11 in the present paper and 8 in a previ- 

 ously published paper {cf. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, XV, 1902, pp. 

 187-190). The list is briefly annotated from Dr. Abbott's notes, and Dr. 

 Richmond supplies here and there considerable important technical 

 comment. — J. A. A. 



Fisher on a New Tern from Necker Island.^ — As one of the fruits of 

 the cruise last year of the U. S. Fish Commission steamer ' Albatross ', 

 engaged in deep-sea dredging around the Hawaiian Islands, Mr. Walter 

 K. Fisher has described a new tern as Procelsterna saxatalts, first obtained 

 on Necker Island, but also observed at French Frigate Shoals and Bird 

 Island, of the Leeward Islands, Hawaiian group. It was found breeding 

 at these islands in considerable numbers, and eggs and young were 

 obtained. It is nearly related tcf two other members of the genus found 

 in southern seas.. — J. A. A. 



Bonhote's 'Field Notes on some Bahama Birds.' — In volumes VHI 

 and IX of the 'Avicultural Magazine,^ Mr. J. L. Bonhote gives a very 

 pleasantly written account of his observations on the birds of the 

 Bahamas. He divides the country into "four classes" (i) the thick bush 

 or ' coppet,' {2) the ' Pine Barrens,' (3) the open swamps or lagoons, and 

 (4) the outlying rocks or ' Cays,' each of which is treated separately with 

 its characteristic birds. His paper is thus not a systematic, faunal list, 



1 Birds collected by Dr. W. L. Abbott on the Coast and Islands of North- 

 west Sumatra. By Charles W. Richmond, Assistant Curator, Division of 

 Birds. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mas., Vol. XXVI, No. 1318, pp. 485-542. Feb., 

 1903. 



^ A New Procelsterna from the Leeward Islands, Hawaiian Group. By 

 Walter K. Fisher. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Vol. XXVI, No. 1322, pp. 559- 

 563. Feb., 1903. 



^ Field Notes on some Bahama Birds. By J. L. Bonhote, M. A., F. Z. S., 

 M. B. O. U. Reprinted and repaged from the ' Avicultural Magazine,' Vol. 

 VIII, pp. 278-288, Vol. IX, pp. 19-24, 54-62, 87-95; ^^°> PP- 55i ^""^ 6 '^^If" 

 tone plates. 



