354 Recently pnhJished Ornithological Works. [Ibis, 



and Mr. E. Hejler was organized by the American Museum 

 of Natural History during the years 1916-1917. Explora- 

 tions were made in western Yunnan and the contiguous 

 parts of Burma and also in Fokien in southern China. 

 An interesting account of the expedition will be found in 

 a volume, ' Camps and Trails in China/ by Mr. Andrews, 

 published at New York in 1918. The primary object of the 

 expedition was the collection of mammals, but a fair series 

 of birds were obtained and are here listed. In the Yunnan 

 list Mr. Bangs has made use of and followed Loi'd Rothschild's 

 recent paper (Nov. Zool. xxviii. 1921, pp. 14-67). The list 

 contains some taxonomic notes, but apparently Mr. Andrews 

 made no field-observations which would certainly have added 

 interest to the paper. New forms described are : — Pericro- 

 cotus yvettcB, Turdus auritus conquisitus, and Megaluruif 

 jialiistris andrewsi, all from Yunnan or the Burma-Yunnan 

 border; while a new name, Uhipidara flabeUifera placabilis, 

 is sugjiested to take the place of i?. /. kempt Math. & Iredale 

 from New Zealand 1913, nee R. rujifrons kempi Math. 1912 ! 



Bannerman on the Canary Islands. 



[The Canary Islands, their History, Natural Plistory, and Scenery : 

 an account of an ornithologist's camping trips in the archipelago. 

 By David A. Bannerman, M.B.E., etc., etc. Pp. xvi+365; 3 col. pis., 

 4 maps, and many photographs. London (Gurney & Jaclvson), 1922. 



8vo.] 



All readers of this Journal are familiar with Mr. Banner- 

 man's work on the birds of the Canary Island group. Now 

 he has made an appeal to a wider audience by the publication 

 of this attractive volume, in which he lias combined his 

 previous researches with a good deal of new matter. That 

 he is amply fitted for his task is evidenced by the fact that 

 he has made ten different visits to the group and has explored 

 all the islands except Palma and Hierro in the extreme west. 



The first chapter is devoted to an account of the discovery 

 and early history of the archipelago, which appears to have 

 been known to Carthaginians and Phoenicians long before 

 the Christian era. In the dark ages all knowledge of the 



