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Publications Received. — Bangs, Outram. (1) A New Race of the 

 Pileated Woodpecker. (Proc. New England Zool. Club, IV, pp. 79, 80, 

 April 2, 1910.) (2) A New Gallinule from the Lesser Antilles. (Ibid., pp. 

 81, 82.) (3) Unrecorded Specimens of two rare Hawaiian Birds. (Proc. 

 Biol. Soc. Washington, XXIII, pp. 67-70, May 4, 1910.) (4) New or 

 Rare Birds from Western Colombia. (Ibid., pp. 71-76.) (5) A new- 

 Hummingbird from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia. (Ibid., 

 pp. 105, 106, June 24, 1910.) (6) A new Tinamou from Lake Titicaca. 

 (Ibid., pp. 107, 108.) (7) Two new Woodpeckers from the Isle of Pines, 

 West Indies. (Ibid., pp. 173, 174, Dec. 29, 1910.) (S) Two new Birds 

 from the Island of Molokai. (Ibid., XXIV, pp. 29, 30, Feb. 24, 1911.) 

 (9) A new Bell-bird from Auckland Island. {Ibid., pp. 23, 24.) (10) 

 A new Fant ail from the Chatham Islands. (Ibid., pp. 41, 42.) 



Beal, F. E. L. Food of the Woodpeckers of the United States. Bull. 

 No. 37, Biological Survey, U. S. Depart, of Agriculture. 



Beetham, Bently. Photography for Bird-Lovers. 8vo, London, 

 Witherby & Co., 1911. 5s. net. 



Cooke, Wells W. Our Greatest Travelers: Birds that fly from Pole 

 to Pole and shun the Darkness: Birds that make 2,500 Miles in a straight 

 Flight, (National Geogr. Mag , April, 1911, pp. 346-365.) 



Grinnell, Joseph. (1) The Linnet of the Hawaiian Islands: a Problem 

 in Speciation. (Univ. California Publ., Zool., VII, pp. 179-1S5, Feb. IS, 

 1911.) (2) The Modesto Song Sparrow. (Ibid., pp. 197-199, Feb. 

 18, 1911.) 



Hancock, Joseph Lane. Nature Sketches in Temperate America. 

 Chicago, A. C. McClurg & Co., 1911. Svo, pp. xviii + 451, with 12 col. 

 pll. and 215 texts cuts. $2.75 net. 



Hellmayr, C.-E. (1) Notes sur quelques Oiseaux de l'Amerique tropi- 

 cale. (Review Franchise d'Orn., No. 7, pp. 98-101, Nov., 1909, et No. 11, 

 Mars 1910, pp. 161-165.) (2) Description d'une nouvelle espece du genre 

 Siptornis. (Ibid., No. 21, pp. 1, 2, Jan. 1911.) (3) Description de quel- 

 ques forms nouvelles d'Oiseaux de l'Amerique meridionale. (Ibid., No. 22, 

 pp. 23-26, Fev. 1911.) (4) The Birds of the Rio Madeira. (Nov. Zool., 

 XVII, pp. 257-428, Dec, 1910.) 



Mathews, Gregory M. Birds of Australia, Part 3, April 29, 1911. 

 London. Witherby & Co. 



Menegaux, A. Etude des Oiseaux de 1'Equateur rapportes par le 

 Dr. Rivet, (Mission du dervice geographique Armee pour la mesure d'un 

 Arc de Meridian Equatorial en Amerique de Sud, IX, pp. B. 1-B. 128, 

 pll. i-iv.) 



Reichenow, Anton. (1) Uber eine Vogelsammlung vom Rio Benito 

 im Spanischen Guinea. (Mitt, aus dem Zoolog. Museum in Berlin, V, 

 pp. 73-87.) (2) Die Vogelfauna des Mittelafrikanischen Seengebietes. 

 (Wissensch. Ergebn. der Centralafrika-Exped., 1907-08, III, pp. 231-374.) 



Riley, J. H. Description of a new Dryortastes from China. (Proc. 

 Biol. Soc. Washington, XXIV, pp. 43, 44, Feb. 24, 1911.) 



