110 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



Journal (Ibis, 1887, p. 320, and 1888, p. 83) . He recognizes 

 10 species and 3 subspecies of Cyclorhis, of which he gives 

 a synoptical table. 



3. Allen on new South- American Birds. 



[Descriptions of new Species of South-American Birds, with Remarks 

 on various other little-known Species. By J. A. Allen. Bull. Am. Mus. 

 Nat. Hist. ii. p. 137.] 



Mr. Allen describes as new species Thryothorus macrurus 

 from Bogota, T. longipes from Ecuador, Platyrhynchus bifas- 

 ciatus from Matto Grosso [H. H. Smith), P. insularis from 

 Tobago, Euscarthmus ochropterus and Sublegatns virescens, both 

 from Matto Grosso (H. H. Smith), and Empidonax lawrencii 

 (= Ochthceca flaviventris, Lawrence) , and proposes a new sub- 

 specific na.me(Thamnophilus doliatus mexicanus)fov the Central 

 American form of T. doliatus. He also gives interesting 

 notes on other obscure species — amongst others on Tanagra 

 carulescens, Wied ( = Porphyrospiza jmlchra, Sharpe), and 

 on certain species of Habrura, Phyllomyias, and Ornithion. 

 Mr. Allen has now the Lawrence Collection to work upon, 

 and full access to the types of Lefresnaye and Prince Max. 

 of Wied. We are glad to see that he is making good use 

 of his opportunities. 



4. Aplin on the Birds of Oxfordshire. 



[The Birds of Oxfordshire. By O. Y. Aplin, M.B.O.U. With a map. 

 8vo. Oxford: 1889.] 



The author is one of three ornithological brothers, whose 

 ' Birds of the Banbury District ' we noticed favourably in 

 this Journal for 1883, p. 375. In conjunction with the above 

 members of his family, and availing himself of the assistance 

 of Mr. W. Warde Fowler and others, he has now extended 

 his researches so as to embrace the entire county, the result 

 bein°- a work which will bear comparison with any similar 

 treatise on local avifaunas. The introductory sketch of the 

 natural features of Oxfordshire, with the changes wrought by 

 drainage, game-preserving and other causes, is excellent, and 

 a good map, which should always accompany a work of this 



