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south as Toronto), it seems by no means evident that the name mesomelas 

 might not be properly retained for the northern form. 



D. v. hyloscopus is restricted to the mountains of southern California 

 and northern Lower California, the birds of the interior formerly referred 

 to it now furnishing material for a new subspecies, D. v. orius; while 

 another new subspecies (D. v. leucothorectis), is sliced from the southern 

 border of what has been currently recognized as D. v. monticola. It is also 

 to be noted that a new Mexican form, D. v. icastus, extends into southern 

 Arizona from Sonora, making three new forms of the group for the United 

 States. D. v. fumeus is based on specimens collected at San Rafael del 

 Norte, Nicaragua, by Mr. William B. Richardson, for the American 

 Museum of Natural History. The distribution of the twenty forms is 

 conveniently shown on an accompanying map. — J. A. A. 



Nelson on a New Hummingbird from Panama. 1 — Among the 

 first fruits of the Smithsonian Biological Survey of the Panama Canal Zone 2 

 is a new genus and species of Hummingbird, recently described by Mr. 

 Nelson as Goldmania violiceps. The species was discovered by Mr. E. A. 

 Goldman, of the Biological Survey, U. S. Department of Agriculture, on 

 the higher slopes of the Cerro Azul, a high mountain at the extreme head- 

 waters of the Chagres River, and the genus is named in honor of Mr. 

 Goldman, who for so many years was Mr. Nelson's assistant in his 

 biological explorations in Mexico. It is allied to the genus Saucerottea, 

 but has the median lower tail coverts highly specialized. — J. A. A. 



McGregor on Birds of the Philippine Islands.— Mr. McGregor 

 has published recently a number of papers on the birds of various islands 

 of the Philippine Archipelago, to which brief references are here made. 

 His paper on the birds of the island of Polillo 3 is said to be the first con- 

 tribution to our knowledge of its fauna, and is based on a trip to the island 

 in September, 1909, with two Philippine assistants. It records 101 species 

 as collected or certainly identified, and discusses the ornithological relations 

 of the island to Luzon and the neighboring smaller islands. 



Lists of birds from Pauai and Mount Pulog, in the Subprovince Benguet, 

 Luzon, 4 are based on a trip made to these localities in May, June and July, 

 1909, when 22 species were obtained or noted at Pauai, and 12 at Mount 

 Pulog. 



i Description of a New Genus and Species of Hummingbird from Panama. 

 By E. W. Nelson. Smithsonian Miscel. Coll., Vol. LVI, No. 21, pp. 1, 2. Pub- 

 lished July 8, 1911. 



2 See antea, p. 152. 



s Birds collected in the Island of Polillo, Philippine Islands. By Richard C. 

 McGregor. Philippine Journ. of Science, Vol. V, No. 2, Sect. D., pp. 103-114. 

 "Issued Oct. 17, 1910." 



*Ibid., pp. 135-138. 



