Becentiy published Ornithological Works. 559 



XLVIII. — Notices of recent Ornithological Publications. 



[Continued from p. 396.] 



94<. Allen on Birds from Bolivia. 



[List of the Birds collected in Bolivia by Dr. H. H. Rusby, with Field- 

 Notes by the Collector. By J. A. Allen. Bull. Am. Mus. N. H. ii. 

 no. 2. Author's edition.] 



Dr. Rusby, a botanist, during his journey from Arica, in 

 Chile, into Bolivia in 1885-86, made a collection of 400 

 specimens of birds, representing 267 species. Amongst these 

 are 125 new to the Bolivian list, and 11 apparently new 

 to science. The new species and subspecies are termed : — 

 Empidonax bulivianus, Chiroxiphia pareola boliviana, Eni- 

 cornis (scr. Henicornis^ striata (probably from Valparaiso), 

 Leptasthenura fuscescens, L. fuliginiceps boliviana, Synal- 

 laxis griseiventris , Anabazenops immaculatus, Myrmochanes 

 hypoleucus (new genus near Pyriglena) , Conopophaga rusbyi, 

 Phlugopsis notata, and Scytalopus bolivianus. Picolaptes 

 obtectus is also described as new in a footnote ; it is based 

 on one of the two specimens of Picolaptes lacryndger in the 

 Lafresnaye collection. Opisthocomus cristatus and Palamedea 

 cornuta were procured on the Lower Beni, and Centropelma 

 micropterum (Scl. et Salv. Ex. Orn. pi. xcv.) on Lake Titicaca. 

 A few field-notes are added, but contain little of special 

 interest, if we except the account of the domestic habits of 

 Psophia leucoptera {op. cit. p. 107). 



95. Allen on Birds from Quito. 



[Notes on a Collection of Birds from Quito, Ecuador. By J. A. Allen. 

 Bull. Am. Mus. N. H. ii. no. 2. Author's edition, issued March 22nd, 



1889.] 



IVIr. Allen gives an account of a collection of 210 speci- 

 mens of birds made in the immediate vicinity of Quito by 

 IMr. L. Soderstrom. These are referred to 79 species, of 

 which one, believed to be new [Tityra nigriceps), has already 

 been described in 'The Auk' (1888, p. 287). Mr. Allen 

 elevates Pithys albifrons peruvianus of Taczanowski, of which 



