1913 Recent Later ature. 447 



The rules governing family and subfamily name are not given but we 

 fail to see bow the name Peltohyatina can I"- u ed when PeUohyat has 

 been rejected in favor of Kudu, mm:, for the only pecie oi the group, A'. 

 an: iiuii.., which La the tnonotypic type of Peltohya ' 



\\ e regret exceedingly that we cannoi endorse this ( !heck-Lii I for g< aei I 

 u i \ ide from all questions of nomenclature, it would serve a valuable 

 purpose a i con en itivi li I "I Australian pecii and sub pedes; l>ut, 

 here il fails, in-as-much as the lack of synonymy make it difficult or im- 

 po ible '" a certain with which forme the many recently described rac< 

 have been united. \\ . 8. 



Riley on Birds of the Mount Robson Region ' During July, August 

 and September, Messrs. J. II Riley and Ned Hollisterof the U.S. National 

 Mn eum joined the expedition of the Alpine Club of Canada to the Mt. 

 Robson region of the Canadian Rockies, for the purpo e of making a 

 general jurvey of the fauna and flora. The general accounl of the expedi- 

 tion lii been published in volume IV of the Club's Journal while this 

 special number contain the scientific reporl 



Mi Hollister contribute* an account of the mammals, and a li.-t of the 

 reptilei and batrachians, Mr. Riley reports on the birds and Mr. Paul C. 

 Standley on the plants. The route included Jasper House, Henry Hon e, 

 then through the Yellow head Pass and up the Moose River to Moose 

 P and Moose Pa branch of the Smoky River, with a stay on the 

 I er River easl of Moo i Lak< on I he return, 



Seventy-eighl pedes of birds are |j ted including a Song and Fo> 

 row which Mr. Riley ha de cribed a new in a previous paper. Bohemian 

 Waxwings were evidenl ly breeding on the west fork of the Moo eRi 

 specimen obtained Jul, I I contained an egg nearly ready to be deposited. 

 'I h' •■ birds were much paler i ban u inter examples and similar individuals 

 undoubtedly, as Mr. Riley suggests, formed the basis for Reichenow's 

 subspecies Bombycilla garrula pallidicepa from Shesly River, B ( ' 



Mr. Riley found Zonolrichia gambeli and Z. leucophry apparent l\ aest ing 

 in the ame pot while Junco hyemalia hyemalis and ./. oreganua ahufeldti 

 werene ting together al Henry House, VTellowhead Passandat thefool of 

 Moo ' Pa . with no ign of intergradation. On the strength of tins evi- 

 dence he ranks them ac distinct pedes. Penthet tea hicdsonicua columbianua 

 ecognized as a distincl form and Lagopua leucurua peninsularia is 

 considered as no more distinct from true Uueurua than is L. I. altipetem, 

 the two being respectively the northern and southern extremes of the 

 White-tailed Ptarmigan. Mr. Riley contends with apparent justice that 

 both or neither should be recognized. 



• Birds Collected or Ob rv< I on the Expedition oi the Upine Club of < tanada 

 to jasper Park, Ifellowhead Paa . and Mount Robson Region. By J. it. Riley. 

 Canadian Upine Journal, Special Number. Alpine Club of Canada (Treas. 



S. II Mitchell, Sidney. Vancouver [aland, B. O.) 8VO, pp. I U7 (Birds 1, 



Price $l.oo. 



