Vol. XX 

 1903 



Recein Litcratine. 44" 



Stone on Birds of Southern New Mexico and Western Texas. — 

 Messrs. Stone and Rehn have recently published a paper on the Terres- 

 trial ^'ertebrates of portions of southern New Mexico and western Texas, 

 Mr. Stone being responsible for the portions relating to the birds and 

 reptiles and Mr. Rehn for that on the mammals, ^ based on collections 

 made by Mr. Rehn and Mr. H. L. Viereck in the spring and early sum- 

 mer of 1902, in El Paso County, Texas, and Otero County, New Mexico, 

 with some material from otiier sources. The list of birds numbers 41 

 species, of which 31 rest on specimens taken, and the other ten on field 

 identifications of birds seen but not taken. The list is briefiy annotated 

 with the collector's field notes, and in some instances by remarks on the 

 character or condition of the plumage. The range of Spizella atrigularis 

 is extended considerably to the eastward of its former known distribution 

 by the capture of a specimen in Dry Canon, Otero Co., New Mexico. 



The faunal relation of the localities visited in New Mexico "appears to 

 be trulv Lower Sonoran." This fauna seems to extend up the bottoms of 

 the canons, " wdiile the slopes of the same and the foothills appear to pos- 

 sess more distinctly Upper Sonoran types.'' An arm of the Lower Son- 

 oran appears to extend "off from the Rio Grande tract and runs up 

 between the Organ and the Sacramento ranges, comprising the San 

 Augustine plain." — J. A. A. 



Oberholser on New Birds from Texas. — ^A vireo of the bellii tvpe, 

 intermediate between Vireo bellii bellii and V. bellii pusillus has been 

 described - by Mr. Oberholser as Vireo bellii meditis, from southwestern 

 Texas and immediatelj' adjacent portions of Mexico. He has also 

 described •* a new Cliff Swallow from the same region, under the name 

 Petrockelidon lunifrons tachina. 



He has also shown * that the name Hylopkiliis, heretofore in current use 

 for a large group of Central American and South American vireos, is 

 preoccupied by Hylophila for a genus of insects, so that the proper generic 

 name for the vireo group is Pachysylvia Bonaparte, 1850. — J. A. A. 



Bonhote's List of Birds collected in the Bahamas.^ — Mr. Bonhote made 

 an ornithological collecting trip to the Bahamas in the winter of 1901- 



' On the Terrestrial Vertebrates of Portions of Southern New Me:yco and 

 Western Texas. By Witmer Stone and James A. G. Rehn. Proc. Acad. Nat. 

 Sci. Phila., 1903, pp. 16-34. May 7, 1903. 



^Description of a New Vireo. By Harry C. Oberholser. Proc. Biol. Soc. 

 Washington, Vol. XVI, pp. 17, 18, Feb. 21, 1903. 



^ A new Cliff Swallow from Texas. Ihid.^ pp. 15, 16, Feb. 21, 1903. 



^ Ibid., p. loi, June 23, 1903. 



" On a Collection of Birds from the Northern Islands of the Bahama Group. 

 By J. Lewis Bonhote, M. A., F. Z. S. The Ibis, July, 1903, pp. 273-312. 



