n " i 1 ,m; XX | Recent Literature. 607 



Stuaii Baker.— After many years study of Asiatic parasitic Cuckoos the 

 aul hor claims thai eggs of parasitic ( Suckoos have undergone, or are under- 

 going, a process of adaptation, and that the majority of foster parents fail to 

 recognize differences in size or shape between their eggs and that of the 

 Cuckoo l>ui do recognize differences in color. We cannot, however, regard 

 the evidence of adaptation as conclusive. The theory would seem to 

 necessitate the parasitism of one race or si rain of Cuckoos upon one species 

 of bird and another race upon a differenl species, and upon this point we 

 have do evidence whatever. 



On the Linnaean Name- Sirixfunerea and Anser erythropus, and on the 

 Species which should be Referred to them. By Einar Lonnberg. — The 

 use of funerea for Tengmalm's Owl as adopted in the A. O. U. Check-List 



but rejected in the recent British List is upheld upon what seems to he satis- 

 factory evidence, while Anser erythropus, is shown to refer to the Lesser 

 \\ hite-fronted < loose. 



A Reference Lisl of the Birds of New Zealand. By Gregory M. Mathews 

 and Tom Iredale (continued). — The following are described as new: 

 //( rodias alba maoriana, Carbo carbo steadi, Circus approximans drummondi, 

 Nesierax poltsi, Cyanoramphus auriceps macleani, Strigops habroptilus 

 innominaius, S. h. parsonsi, Sauropatis sanctus forsteri, Acanthositta chloris 

 granti, Myiomoira macrocephala marrineri, Rhipidura flabellifera kempi, 

 also the genera Mesocarbo, type Carbo sulcirostris Brandt; Maorigerygone 

 type Curruca igata Quoy and Gaimard and Nesomiro, type Miro traversi 

 Buller. 



Proceedings at the Annual General Meeting of the B. O. U. 1913. — Col. 

 R. G. Wardlow-Ramsay was elected president and Mr. E. C. Stuart Baker 

 Secretan r and Treasurer. 



Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. 1 No. CLXXXVII1. 



May 28, 1913. 



Orcocincln irliitflicadi, Khagan Valley, India, is described as new by E. C. 

 Stuart Baker, who also has some remarks on other species of the genus, 

 while La a in Hue heh rue, Sierra Leone, W. Africa is described as new by H. 

 J. Kelsall. W. R. Ogilvie Grant has diagnoses of the following new forms 

 from Yemen: Turdus menachensis, Parisoma buryi, CEnanthe yemenensis, 

 Am ntor fagani, Pseudacanthis (gen. nov.) ycmenensis, Poliospiza menachen- 

 sis, and Cryptolopha umbrovirens yemenensis; all of which were procured by 

 G. W. Bury. 



H. M. Wallis presents a list of birds observed in the Balkans. 



Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. Xo. CLXXXIX. 

 July ID, 1913. 



The meeting here recorded which took place on June 11, marked the 

 twenty-firsl anniversary of the club and it was fittingly celebrated by the 



■Edited by W. R. Ogilvie-Grant. Published by Withcrby & Co.. 32ii BIgh 

 Hnlliorn. London. 



