1922.] Recently puhliahed Ornithological IVortcs. 35^ 



Himalaya, tlie dense bamboo jungles of the Bnrmese bills, 

 and the smiling landscape of" Japan were all visited, and 

 are here described with their characteristic pheasants. 



The coloured plates are reproduced from paintings by 

 various artists. Those of the true Pheasants, eleven in 

 number, are by the late Major H. Jones ; they are in a 

 rather different style to the others, tiie backgrounds and 

 surroundings being conventional and the birds themselves 

 occupying most of the plate ; they are wonderfully exact 

 reproductions of the colouring of the birds, but not perhaps 

 so pleasing in an artistic sense as some of tlie others. 

 To Mr, Lodge has fallen the four Koklass and four Long- 

 tailed Pheasants, and we would give the palm to the 

 Common Koklass which forms the frontispiece; the Mikado 

 does not seem to be nearly so successful. There are two 

 plates, Cheer and Elliot's, by Mr. Fuertes, and one each 

 from Mr. C. R. Knight, and Mr. E. Megargee — lleeves' and 

 Soemmerring's ; while Mr. Grcinvold contributes a plate of 

 the young birds of Reeves' and Elliot's. The photogravures 

 illustrating the homes and haunts are mostly from photo- 

 graphs by AL'. Beebe himself, but there are some by 

 General Bailward, Mr. Dwight Huntington, and ]\L-. 

 Douglas Carruthers of regions in central Asia not visited 

 by Mr. Beebe. One of the most beautiful of the camera 

 pictures is the home of the Japanese Copper Pheasant 

 (<S. swmmerrmgi) , showing Mt. Fuji rising from a lake in 

 the foreground. 



Our only regret is that the high price of this beautiful 

 woik will prevent it having the wide circulation which it 

 deserves, and we shall look forward tu seeing before very 

 long the fourth and concluding volume. 



Cherrie and Reichenherger on new South American Birds. 



[Descriptions of proposed new birds from Brazil, Paraguay, and 

 Argentina. By George K. Clierrie and Mrs. E. B. Reich euberger. 

 Amer. Mas. Novit. New York, no. 27, Dec. 1921, pp. 1-6.] 



This contains pi'eliminary descriptions of new forms 

 contained chiefly in the, Roosevelt collection made by 



