162 Recently published Ornithological Works. [Ibis, 



Neopsephotus is noted as peculiar for its crepuscular 

 habits, while the single subspecies 23allifla is suppressed. 

 Finally, Neonanodes has four species, of which chrysogaster 

 Lath. (= aurantia Gould)., with two subspecies, and chryso- 

 stomus Kuhl (= venustus Temm.), also apparently with two, 

 are included here. 



Peters on the birds of Santo Domingo. 



[Birds from the northern coast of the Dominican Republic. By 

 James L. Peters. Bull. JNIus. Couip. Zool. Cambridge, Mass., Ixi. 1917, 

 pp. .391-42G.] 



Although the Island of Hispaniola, which is now divided 

 politically into two independent Republics — that of the 

 French-speaking Haiti to the west and the Spanish-speaking 

 Santo Domingo to the east, — was discovered by Columbus 

 and was the first settled land in the New World, its birds 

 are less known perhaps than those of any other West 

 Indian Island. 



In pre-Linnean days, however, a M. Chervain collected a 

 considerable number of the native birds and sent them to 

 M. de Reamur in Paris, where they were described by 

 Brisson. These formed the basis of a good many names 

 found in Linnseus' and Gmelin's Systems. In the last 

 few years a good deal of ornithological exploration by 

 American collectors has been done and some very inter- 

 esting new forms have been described (see Ibis, 1917, 

 pp. 256, 438). 



Mr. Peters, the author of the present paper, spent about 

 two months of the winter of 1916 on the northern coast 

 of S. Domingo and made very considerable collections for 

 the Museum at Cambridge, Mass, Ninety-two species are 

 listed, with field-notes and native Spanish names. One new 

 subspecies, a Black-collared Swift {Streptoprocne zonaris 

 melanotis), described in the Proceedings of the New England 

 Zoological Club, was discovered, and the form of the Golden 

 Warbler of the island, shown to be a well-marked race, 

 must bear the name Bendroica petechia albicolUs (Gmeh). 



