376 Recent Literature. LJuly 



covered in an exceedingly practical way. The half-tone illustrations 

 are not only interesting and beautiful, but have in most instances a direct 

 relation to the instructions given in the text. — J. A. A. 



Matthews's ' Birds of Australia.' — Part 3 ' of this work, bearing the 

 date April 29, 1911, concludes the account of the Pigeons, of which twelve 

 species are here figured and described, and two additional subspecies are 

 described. While similar in plan and execution with previous parts, the 

 historical and biographical matter is usually restricted to a few quotations 

 from previous writers, and thus much less extended than in Part 1, or 

 than the prospectus might lead one to expect. — J. A. A. 



Menegaux on the Birds of Ecuador. 2 — This report is based on a 

 collection of 885 specimens collected by Dr. Rivet during five years of 

 service as physician to the French Geodetic Survey, 1899-1906, in northern 

 central Ecuador. After a short historical account of previous ornithologi- 

 cal work in this region the author proceeds to give in systematic sequence 

 a list of the 274 species obtained, exlusive of the Hummingbirds (33 

 species) previously reported upon by M. Simon (cf. antea, p. 133). The 

 specimens obtained are enumerated, with their localities and more or less 

 descriptive comment, under their respective species, with reference to 

 previous records for the region, and a brief statement of the range of the 

 species and a citation of the place of original description and type locality. 

 The list adds a considerable number of species not previously recorded 

 from the region. 



The systematic list is followed by several pages on the climatic and 

 topographic features of the region, with lists of species characteristic 

 of the different climatic and faunal districts, and by a bibliography of about 

 50 titles. The four colored plates illustrate Tinamus latifrons Salvad., 

 Odontopkorus melanonotus Gould, Grallaria gigantea Lawr., and Philydof 

 columbianus riveti Meneg. & Hellm. — J. A. A. 



Hellmayr's ' The Birds of the Rio Madeira.' 3 — The present paper of 

 nearly 200 pages is presented " as a complete resume of our present knowl- 

 edge of the Ornis of the Madeira region," here restricted " to that portion 

 of the stream from Borba upwards to the junction of the Beni and Guapore 

 Rivers." For this area 464 species and subspecies are here recorded. 



1 Birds of Australia, by Gregory M. Matthews. Part 3, April 29, 1911. Royal 

 4to, pp. 137-184, pll. xxxiv-xliv, colored. Witherby & Co., London. — For 

 notice of previous parts see antea, pp. 135 and 289. 



2 Etude des Oiseaux de l'Equateur rapportes par le Dr. Rivet. Mission du 

 service geographique de l'Armee pour la mesure d'un Arc de Meridian equatorial 

 en Amerique du Slid, 1899-1906, tome IX, pp. B. 1-B. 128, pi. i-iv (colored). 



3 The Birds of the Rio Madeira. By C. E. Hellmayr. Novitates Zoologica?, 

 Vol. XVII, pp. 257-428. December, 1910. 



