66 Recent Literature. [-j" n k 



censure him for lightening his task, as he has done, by ignoring sub- 

 species, 1 and often, too, by giving descriptions only sufficient to identify 

 the adult males. Here, alas, he has but followed in the footsteps of leading 

 ornithologists, and he can hardly be blamed for taking them as models 

 rather than as warnings. — C. F. B. 



Allen's Notice of some Venezuelan Birds, collected by Mrs. H. H. 

 Smith.'- — Although based on a small collection of about 60 specimens, 

 this paper shows what may yet be done in comparatively well worked 

 areas of South America, three of the forty-eight species being new to 

 science, two others present differences which will probably be found 

 constant when additional specimens are examined, while the identifica- 

 tion of two others is merely provisional. 



The new forms described are Ramphoccelus atrosericeus capitalist 

 Lophotriccus subcristatns, and Picumnus obsoletus — all from El Pilar, 

 "a little way in the interior" of the country. 



A species which, if correctly identified, has its known range much 

 extended is Hapalocercus fulviceps (Scl.), previously recorded only from 

 western Ecuador and Peru. 



We regret to see, in the spelling of the generic name Ramphoca'lus 

 (instead of Ramphocelns), on p. 51, a disregard— doubtless accidental — of 

 one of the rules of nomenclature of the American Ornithologists' Union 

 (Canon XL).— R. R. 



Allen's List of Birds collected in Northeastern Sonora and North- 

 western Chihuahua. :! — This is a list of 162 species, based on a collection 

 of about one thousand specimens, made chiefly by Mr. Frank Robinette, 

 of Washington, D. C. Although the localities represented are 150 miles 

 or more from the southern boundary of Arizona, all but ten of the 162 

 species have been taken within our limits. These peculiarly Mexican 

 forms are the following: " Callipepla elegans" (= C. e. beiisoui Ridgw. 4 ), 

 Rhynchopsitta pachyrkyncha, Euptilotis neoxenus, Campephilus im- 

 perialism " Myiarchus inquietus Salv.and Godm.," n Aimopkila superciliosa, 



iThis is doubly unfortunate, for it results in the introduction of misleading names, — 

 for instance, Tardus aorialaschkcB, - Immodramus sandwichensis, and Empidonax 

 piisillus for the Hermit Thrush, Savanna Sparrow, and Traill's Flycatcher. 



2 Notice of some Venezuelan Birds, collected by Mrs. H. H. Smith. By J. A. Allen. 

 Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., Vol. IV, No. 1, Article V, April 6, 1892, pp. 51-56. 



3 List of Mammals and Birds collected in Northeastern Sonora and Northwestern 

 Chihuahua, Mexico, on the Lumholtz Archaeological Expedition, 1890-92. By J. A. 

 Allen. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., Vol. V, Art. 3, March 16, 1893, pp. 27-42. 



4 Forest and Stream, XXVIII, No. 6, 1887, p. 106; Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., X, July 

 2, 1887, 148-150. 



5 Identification open to question. 



