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parison with those which separate garmatii, in which, in Lake Titicaca 

 specimens, the length of the wing rims up to 9.10 inches, with an average 

 of S.50, — a difference one-fourth to one-third of the total length of the 

 wing in average galeata, combined with much darker coloration and a 

 great reduction in the amount of white In West Indian and Bogota 

 specimens there is very little reduction in size from average galeata, but 

 the frontal shield is larger, the back darker and less olive, and the front of 

 the tarsus more or less strongly tinged with red — the latter a feature 

 sometimes seen in Florida specimens. While we should not deem it 

 advisable to name the West Indian form, the case is very different with 

 the Andean form, although it may grade into galeata. 



According to the characters given for the separation of the subspecies 

 of the Aramides cayanea group, of six Trinidad specimens (all females), 

 collected by Mr. Chapman, two would he referable to A cayanea and four 

 to A. cayanea chiricole, in these last the hinder part of the crown and 

 nape being strong rufous brown, instead of gray. This feature is thus 

 shown to be variable in specimens from the same locality, independently 

 of either sex or season. The species and subspecies described apparently 

 for the first time in the present work are : Rallns cequatorialis (figured, 

 pi. ii) ; li Limnopardaln$ rytirhynchus, subsp. p. Limnopardalus vigilan- 

 ■tis" (figured, pi. iv) ; Aramides gutturalis (figured, pi. v) ; Porzana 

 galapagoensis; ii CoretAtira, elegans^ subsp. a. Coret/iura reichenovP '; 

 Grus lilfordi. — J. A. A. 



Elliot's Monograph of the Pittidse. — Part III, dated February, 1894', 

 contains the following species : EueicJila gttiaua, Pitta lorice, P. steerii, 

 P. concinna, P. rubrinucAa, P. fiepalensis, P. koeki, and P. celebeusis. 



Figures are given of the young birds in first plumage, as well as of the 

 adult male and female, in two of the species (Blue-tailed Pitta, Ruciclila 

 guiana, and the Nepal Pitta, P. nepalensis), ami there is also some 

 account of the habits of these species. While the sexes are alike in colora- 

 tion when adult, the young in first plumage are almost as different as 

 possible from the adults. The Blue-tailed Pitta's nest is built in bushes 

 six or eight feet above the ground, and is ball-shaped ; the Nepal Pitta 

 nests on the ground, while the Celebes Pitta (P. celebeusis) nests "in a 

 hole dug in the slope of a river bank." The eggs are in each case white, 

 spotted and streaked with dark markings. — J. A. A. 



A Bird-Lover in the West.- — A desire to widen the circle of her 

 feathered friends has led Mrs. Miller further afield and in 'A Bird-Lover 

 in the West' she gives us the results of her studies in Ohio, Colorado, and 

 Utah. 



1 For notice of Parts I and 1 1, see Auk, XI, pp. 62 and 173. 



2 A Bird-Lover in the West. By Olive Thome Miller. Boston and New York. 

 Houghton, Mifflin & Company. The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1894. i2ino., pp. 

 i-vii, 1-278. 



