Recently published Ornithological Works. Ill 



kind, facilitates reference to the places mentioned. The 

 Alpine Chough shot at Broughton in April 1881 forms the 

 subject of a coloured frontispiece, and the author points out 

 that not only did the bird show no signs of confinement, but 

 that also, on inquiry, no instances of escapes were forth- 

 coming. All the remarks upon the various species appear to 

 be correct as well as concise, while several interesting facts 

 are set forth ; and the entire work is characterized by a com- 

 plete absence of "padding;" We think that Mr. Aplin 

 would have acted wisely in following the arrangement set 

 forth in the " B. O. U." List, rather than that of the 4th 

 edition of "Yarrell"; for the sequence in the latter was obvi- 

 ously and necessarily a compromise, and should never have 

 been accepted as a pattern. 



5. Berlepsch on new Neotropical Birds. 



[Descriptions of new Species and Subspecies of Birds from the Neo- 

 tropical Region. By Hans von Berlepsch. Auk, v. p. 449.] 



In this article are described as new species or subspecies 

 Campy lor hynchus zonatus costaricensis, Certhia mexicana al- 

 bescens, Basileuterus godmani from Veragua, Eucometis spodo- 

 cephala pallida from Yucatan, E. s. stictothorax from Veragua, 

 E. cristata affinis from Venezuela, Icterus gularisyucatanensis, 

 Myiobius ridgwayi from Rio, and Synallaxis coryi from 

 Merida. 



6. Berlepsch on Birds from Brazil and North Peru. 



[Systematisches Veizeichniss der von Herrn Gustav Garlepp in Bra- 

 silien und Nord-Peru, im Gebiete des oberen Amazonas, gesammelten 

 Vogelbalge. "Von Hans von Berlepsch. J. f. 0. 1889, p. 97.] 



Our friend Hans Graf v. Berlepsch writes on the collections 

 made by Gustav Garlepp, primarily an insect-collector, sent 

 out by Dr. Staudinger of Dresden, who has passed up the 

 Amazons into Peru. The present paper gives an account of 

 a small series obtained in 1884 at Fonteboa and Tunantins 

 on the Middle Amazons. The 28 specimens are referred to 

 18 species, amongst which the most noticeable are Oporornis 



