503 Rccentltj published Omitliolugical Works. 



of the American Contineut^ which Mr. Bangs considers only 

 subspecifically distinct from the European Gallinula chloropus. 

 In addition to G. c. yaleuta, now confined to southern Brazil 

 and northern Argentina, Mr. Bangs recognizes G. c. cerceris 

 Bangs from the Lesser Antilles, G. c. yarmani Allen from 

 the Peruvian and Bolivian Andes, G. c. pauxilla from 

 western Colombia, and G. c. cachinnans from eastern and 

 central North America. The last two are here described for 

 the first time, and the last-named is the form which lias 

 hitherto been referred to G. yuleata by all previous writers. 



Brasil on New Caledonian Birds. 



[Notes sur une collection d'oiseaux de la Nouvelle Oaledonie et de 

 Lifou. Eev. Frau9. Orn. vii. 1916, pp. 193-204, 219-223.] 



In this paper M. Brasil gives an account of two collec- 

 tions of Pacific birds made many years ago, between 1865 

 and 1869, by Naval-Surgeon E. Deplanche and Commander 

 H. Jouan in the i?;land of New Caledonia and the neigh- 

 bouring island of Lifou, one of the Loyalty group. 



These collections, which are now in the Museum at Caen, 

 have never yet been reported on, much to the regret of 

 M. Brasil, who finds among them many forms which have 

 been described as new by other authors in collections made 

 since that date. 



Out of the 68 species here enumerated, however, he finds 

 five worthy of distinction as new subspecies, namely : — 

 Chalcophaps chrysochlora disjuncta, Haliastur sphenurus 

 Johanna, Pondion haliaetus microhaliaetns, Tyto alha li/u- 

 ensis, Sauropatis sancta canacorum. 



Brooks on Siberian and Alaskan Birds. 



[Notes ou Birds from East Siberia and Arctic Alaska. By W. 

 Sprague Brooks. Bull. Mus. Oomp. Zool. Cambridge, Mass., lix. 1915, 

 pp. 361-413.] 



In the spring of 1913 Messrs. W, Sprague Brooks and 

 Joseph Dixon accompanied a hunting expedition organized 

 by some graduates of Harvard University in northern 



