1G6 Recenthj published Ornithological ^^^orks. 



full authoi'ity to determine what shall be closed seasons, 

 and to prepare regulations for their due observation. This 

 has now been done, and spring-shooting, when birds are 

 returning from their winter-quarters to their breeding-places, 

 has now been forbidden. It is hoped that this, together with 

 an enlightened public sentiment to aid in its enforcement, 

 will allow the Shore-birds, as well as the Woodcock and 

 Snipe, to again become common enough, not only to enliven 

 the beaches and swamps with their welcome presence, but 

 to afford the hunter a fair amount of legitimate sport. 



Cory on new South American Birds. 



[Notes on South American Birds, witli descriptions of new Subspecies. 

 By Charles B. Cory. Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Chicago, Ornith, Ser, 

 i. .1915, pp. 303-335.] 



The first portion of this paper contains descriptions of 

 new subspecies of Threnites, Piaya, Chrysoptilus, Veniliornis, 

 and Scapaneus, from difi'erent localities in South America, 

 together with keys of the subspecies of Chrysoptilus puncii- 

 gula, and of the species of Piaya. 



The latter portion of the paper is devoted to a discussion 

 of the various forms of the American Sparrow-Hawk 

 [Cerchneis sparvei'ia) found in South America. Mr. Cory 

 recognises fourteen subspecies, three of which he here 

 describes for the first time. 



Faxon on Peak's Museum. 



[Relics of Peale's Museum. By Walter Faxon. Bull. Mus. Comp. 

 Zool. Harvard, lix. 1915, pp. 119-148.] 



It has always been a matter of regret to American orni- 

 thologists that the birds known to have been deposited in 

 the Museum known as Peale^s Museum at Philadelphia 

 have been lost to science. 



Charles Willson Peale, artist and soldier, born in 1741, 

 started his Museum in 1784 in Philadelphia; after his 

 death it became the property of a joint stock company, 

 which finally came to grief, and the natural history speci- 

 mens were acquired half by P. T. Barnum and half by 

 i\loses Kimball. 



