l68 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



gives a very useful summaiy of additions to our knowledge 

 of avian anatomy and physiology during the last three or 

 four years. A bibliography of 1 1 pages, which does not 

 include " papers dealing with the integument, flight, food, 

 and eggs of birds,'^ concludes the summary, and is an indi- 

 cation of the continued activity of workers in this branch of 

 zoology. The substance of the paper is simply an expansion 

 of the bibliography, giving a necessarily very brief account 

 of the various organs and systems that have been the subject 

 of anatomical investigation during the period referred to, 

 prefaced by a summary of the general i^rogress of oruitholog}' 

 from the time of Aristotle. It concludes with an exposition 

 of the several schemes of classification that have been pro- 

 pounded from the year 1887 onwards. 



7. Godman and Salvin's ' Biologia Cent rati- Americana.' 



[Biologia Centrali-Americana ; or, Contributions to tlie Knowledge of 

 the Fauna and Flora of Mexico and Central America. Edited by F. 

 DuCane Godman and Osbert Sal vin. (Zoology.) Parts XCII.-XCV. 4to. 

 London : 1891. Published for the Editors by II. II. Porter, 10 Chaudos 

 Street, Cavendish Square, W.] 



The four numbers of this important work issued since our 

 last notice of it (Ibis, 1891, p. 449) contain the remaining 

 portion of the Cotingidfe and Dendrocolaptidse. Of the latter 

 family 46 species are known to the authors to occur in 

 Central America. A new arrangement of the subfamilies of 

 the Dendrocolaptidse is proposed, based mainly on the form of 

 the nostrils, according to which the Central-American mem- 

 bers of the group would be arranged in six subfamilies — Synal- 

 laxinse, Philydorinpe, Sclerurinpe, Margarornithinse, Glypho- 

 rhynchiuae, and Dendrocolaptin^e. This arrangement will, 

 no doubt, be an improvement, if the South-American mem- 

 bers of the group are found to fall in with it. Pseudocolaptes, 

 according to this view, is a Synallaxine genus. Automoli 

 vercepacis from Vera Paz, umbrinus from the Pacific coast of 

 Gw2devciQ\ii, gueirerensis from Guerrero, Mexico, awA. fumosus 

 from Panama are described as new. 



The following species are figured : — Sclerurns guatema- 



