364 Letters, E.rirocts, nnd Notes. [Ibis, 



List of other Ornithuhy'ical Publicotions received. 



GniNNELL, Bryant, and Stokkk. Tho Game Birds of California. 



Berkeley, Cal., 1018. 

 KuROPA, N. Description of a new Tit {l\<ri(s). (Tokio Zool. Mug. xxx. 



1918. p. 0-2-2.) 

 Whitk, Capt. S. \. Ooldea on the East-West luiilway, Adelaide, 1918. 

 WiGLKSAYOuTH, J. Tile Ileronries of Somerset. (I'roe. Somerset 



Arch. Nat. Hist. Soc. Ixiv. 1918, p. 68.) 

 Archivum Melitensfc. (Vol. iii. no. G, 1918.) 

 Aulv. (V^^l- -^^xvi. no. 1. 1919.) 



Avicultural Masia/.ine. (Tliiril Series, Vol. x. nos. 3-5, 1919.) 

 Bird-Lore. (Vol. xxi. no. 1, 1919.) 

 Bird Notes. (Third Series, Vol. ii. nos. 1--2, 1919.) 

 British Birds. (Vol. xii. nos. 8-10, 1919.) 



Club van Xederlandsche Voejrelkundiii'en. .laarhericlit, no. 8, 1918. 

 Condor. (Vol. xxi. no. 1, 1919.) 

 Irish Xatnralist. (Vol. xxviii. nos. l-'2, 1919.) 

 Joiirn. Nat. Hist. Soc. Sinm. (Vol. iii. no. 1, 1918.) 

 Kev. Franfaise d'Orn. (Nos. 117-118, 1919.) 

 Scottish Naturalist. (Nop. 85-80, 1919.) 

 South Australian Ornithologist. (Vol. iii. nos. 7-8, 1918.) 

 Tori. Journal of the Japanese Onitholoiiical Society. (Nos. 1-7, 1917- 

 1918.) 



XX. — Letters, Eairacts. and Notes. 



Control of New Species and Snl3species. 



Dear Sir, — Iii these days when controlleis hold their 

 sway in so many affairs ot" life, it seems to me that it is 

 high time that ornithoUigists of the world should agree to 

 select a small international committee of, say, three compe- 

 tent individuals, who sliould sit for a term of years in 

 Loudon, or the country which contains the largest numhcr 

 of types. They should hi; paiil hy international subscrip- 

 tion. All proposed new species and subspecies should be 

 submitted to them and passed by tliem. Surely it is time, 

 for the sake of ornithology and the bird student, that some 

 steps should he taken to prevent reckless desciiptions of 

 what are often phantom forms. So long as young JNlr. , 



