574 Recently jmbtished Oi'nithologicdl Works. [Ibis, 



M. Babault iu his introduction acknowledges the great 

 assistance he lias had from Mr. T. Wells of the British Mu- 

 seum, and we may conclude by congratulating the author on 

 the very fine and valuable piece of work he has accomplished 

 and the magnificent form in which it has been presented to 

 the public. 



Bangs on Philippiae Birds. 



[Notes on Philippine Birds collected by Governor W. Cameron Forbes. 

 By Outram Bangs. Ball. Mus. Comp. Zool. Ixv. 1922, pp. 77-84.] 



In this short paper Mr. Bangs lists and comments on some 

 of the birds collected by Mr. Forbes, a former Guvernor 

 of the PhilippiiiC Islands, Mhich have been presented by 

 him to the Museum at Harvard. Several new forms are 

 proposed, includnig one new species — Zosterops forbesi from 

 Camiguin Island. 



Bangs, Penard, and Kennard's recent papers. 



[The name of the eastern Ilerniit-Thrush. By Oiitram Bangs and 

 Thomas E. Penard. Auk, xxxviii. 1921, pp. 432-434.] 



[Descriptions of six new subspecies of American birds. Ihid. Proc. 

 Biol. Soc. Washington, 1921, pp. 89-92.] 



[A list of the birds of Jamaica. My Outram Bangs and Frederic H. 

 Keimard in: The Handbook of Jamaica, 1920, pp. 1-18. Kingston 

 (Govt. Printing Office), 1920.] 



In the first note, Messrs. Bangs and Penard discuss the 

 name of the common Hermit-Thrush of the eastern United 

 States. They find that the name usually used [Hj/locichla 

 guttata pallasi) is really a pure synonym of the typical 

 Alaskan race, Hylocichla g. guttata (Pallas), and that a new 

 name is required. They propose H. g.faxoni^ after the late 

 Dr. Walter Faxon, a well-known American ornithologist, 

 who drew their attention to this error in nomen- 

 clature. 



The second note contains descriptions of new subspecies 

 of Geranospica, Otus, Mecocerculus, Nuttalornis, Melanotis, 

 aiid Tangara, from various localities between California and 

 British Guiana. 



