V ° 190? IV ] Recent Literature. 453 



'Along the Labrador Coast ' is thus an entertaining and instructive narra- 

 tive of much literary merit. — ■ J. A. A. 



Clark on New Birds from Eastern Asia and the Aleutian Islands. 1 — This 

 paper, the author states, is based mainly on a collection of birds made by 

 the late Mr. P. L. Jouy during a residence of over three years in Korea. 

 This collection, containing 554 specimens, was being worked up by Mr. 

 Jouy at the time of his death in 1894, but his report was never completed, 

 and there have been as yet only incidental reference to a few of the species. 

 The new forms here described have come to light through the preparation 

 by Dr. Clark of a report on the ornithological results of the recent cruise 

 of the United States Fisheries steamer 'Albatross,' during which he has 

 been permitted to make use of the Jouy and other pertinent material in 

 the National Museum. 



The 18 new species and subspecies here characterized include a new 

 ptarmigan (Lagopus rwpestris chamberlaini) from Adak Island, Aleutian 

 Islands, collected by Mr. C. H. Townsend in 1893. It is described as "the 

 grayest and one of the lightest" of the local forms of ptarmigan of the 

 Aleutian chain. The new forms are mostly from Korea, but include five 

 or six from Japan. A new genus, Tisa, is proposed for Emberiza variabilis 

 Temminck, which has heretofore been referred to various genera by dif- 

 ferent-authors. — J. A. A. 



Blackwelder's Notes on Chinese Zoology — In this Report 2 the birds 



occupy pp. 483-506, and is based on a collection of 64 specimens, represent- 

 ing 49 species, "supplemented by descriptions of 81 additional species, 

 individuals of which were examined in the hand or seen at short range 

 and described at the time of observation. Regarding some of the latter 

 there is necessarily more or less doubt." The identification of the speci- 

 mens is accredited to Dr. Charles W. Richmond; and the single new form 

 (Olbiorchilus fumigatus idius Richmond) rests on his inedited description. 

 Of the 132 species recorded about twenty are entered as doubtfully deter- 

 mined and more than half of the others rest on field determinations of 

 birds seen in life. Colored plates of six species, drawn by Mr. J. L. Ridg- 

 way, illustrate the report on the birds. The region traversed includes 

 portions of the Provinces of Chi-li, Shan-tung, Lian-tung, Shan-si and 

 Shen-si. — J. A. A. 



Bangs on Birds from Costa Rica and Chiriqui. 3 — This paper is based on 



1 Eighteen new Species and one new Genus of Birds from Eastern Asia and the 

 Aleutian Islands. By Austin H. Clark, of the United States Bureau of Fisheries. 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Vol. XXXII, pp. 467-475. Published June 15, 1907. 



2 Research in China. Expedition of 1903-04, under the Direction of Bailey Willis. 

 Report on Zoology, by Eliot Blackwelder. Extracted from Carnegie Institution of 

 Washington Publication No. 54, Research in China, Vol. I, Part II, pp. 481-508, 

 pi), col. Iviii-lxiii. Published June, 1907. 



3 Notes on Birds from Costa Rica and Chiriqui, with descriptions of new forms and 

 new records for Costa Rica. By Outram Bangs. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, Vol. 

 XIX, pp. 101-112. Published July 30, 1907. 



