1 91 8.] HecenUy published Ornithological Works. 735 



XXXIV. — Notices of recmt Ornithological Publications. 



Bangs' recent papers. 



[Notes on a collection of Siiriuam Birds. By Outram Bangs and 

 Thomas E. Penard. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., Cambridge, Mass., Ixii. 

 1918, pp. 25-93.] 



[Vertebrata from Madagascar. Aves. By Outram Bangs. Ibid. Ixi 

 1918, pp. 489-511.] 



[Notes on the Geographical races of Tangard gyroloides. By Outram 

 Bangs. Proc. New Engl. Zool. Club, vi. 1917, pp. 73-76.] 



[Description of a new Woodpecker from Peru. By Outram Bangs and 

 G. K. Noble. Ibid. pp. 85-86.J 



In the first paper an extensive collection of nearly 2000 

 specimens, representing 301 species of birds, made in the 

 vicinity of Paramaribo in Dutch Guiana for the Cambridge 

 IMuseuni is described by the two authors. After a short 

 introduction describing the three zones— alluvial, savanna, 

 and highlands— into which the country maybe divided, a list 

 of species follows with taxonomic remarks. A number of new 

 forms from Surinam, as well as from other parts of South 

 America, are described, viz. x—Milvago chimachima cordata 

 Panama, tiupornis magnirostris insidiatriw Colombia, Her- 

 petotheres cachinnans chapmani Mexico, Aramides cajanea 

 Mens Panama, Chcsmepelia arthuri Surinam, Pulsatrix 

 perspicillata trinitatis Trinidad, Ceophlceus lineatus impro- 

 cerus Bahia, Chcstura brachyura pratvelox St. Vincent, 

 Lipaugus simplex frederici Surinam, Placostomus coronatus 

 gumia Surinam, Pitangus lictor panamensis Panama, Troglo- 

 dytes musculas paramnribensis Surinam, Stelgidupteryx rufi- 

 collis cacabatus Surinam, Ostinops viridis flavescens Peruvian 

 Amazons, Tanagra olivacea mellea Peru, Sporophila minuta 

 centralis Panama, Saltator olivascens brewsteri Trinidad, 

 Myospiza humeralis tucumanensis Argentina. 



Two new genera are proposed, Helicolestes for Falco 

 hamulus Illiger, and Hypocnemoides for Hypocnemis mtlano- 

 pogun Scl. In addition a number of old names are revived 

 and recognized, and several changes made in present nomen- 

 clature. 



The second paper deals with a collection of birds made 



