Keceiit/f/ publis/ted Onutholoy'icul ll'urks. I(i5 



muler the leadersliip of Mr. Herbert Lang. The collections, 

 which have been gathered from all parts of that vast territory 

 from Lado to Boma^ have now reached New York. The bird- 

 skins are about 6000 in number, representing some 600 

 species^ and many of these appear to be hitherto unknown. 

 The first three new forms are here described, viz. Chietwa 

 melanopygia, Apaloderma minus, and Ceriocleptes xenurus, all 

 from the Ituri district. The last named, for which a new 

 generic name is proposed, is a new type of Honey-Gruide 

 (Indicatoridae), distinguished by its curiously-shaped tail 

 composed of twelve pointed and outwardly-cui*ved feathers, 

 the middle pair being the longest and widest and forming 

 a strong fork, the others narrow, stiffened, and successively 

 gliorter. The under tail-coverts are unusually long and 

 project into the fork of the tail. A figure of this remark- 

 able structure is given. 



Cooke on the Protection of the American Shore-birds. 



[Our Shore-birds and tlieir Future. By Wells W. Cooke. Year-book 

 Dept. Agric. AVashiugton, D.C. for 1914-1915, pp. 275-294.] 



More and more our American cousins are getting anxious 

 about the preservation of bird-life in the United States, 

 and every year sees additional legislation, the extension of 

 reserves, and the restriction of indiscriminate shooting, and, 

 what is more important still, a healthier public sentiment 

 about this matter. The present pamphlet by Mr. Cooke, who 

 is perhaps our best authority on migration and migration 

 routes in the States, pleads for the AVilson Snipe, the 

 Americian Woodcock, and the Upland Plover, all of which, 

 but especially the Woodcock, which breeds throughout the 

 eastern half of the Staj;es, have become much diminished in 

 numbers. Up till quite recently it has only been possible to 

 make protective laws by State legislation, but it has become 

 iucreasingly evident that Federal legislation covering the 

 whole of the United States is necessary, and after many 

 years of agitation, a national law for protecting migratory 

 game and insectivorous birds was passed by Congress in 1913. 

 Under its provisions the Department of Agriculture is given 



