720 Recently published Ornithological Works. [Ibis, 



instead o£ four, and as Mr. Baker hopes to be able to issue 

 a volume every two years, it will be some time before the 

 whole work is complete. Some new subspecies are described 

 in this volume for the first time, as follows : — 'De.ndrocitta 

 rufa sclateri Chin hills, D. r. kinneari Burma, ^githina 

 tiphia humei Central India, Otocompsa emeria peguensis 

 Burma, and Certhia discolor fuliginosa Shan States. The 

 curious Hyppcolius ampelinus retains its place among the 

 Timaliine birds, and the genus Podoces is added to the Indian 

 fauna on the strength of a single example of P. humilis 

 taken in the Chumbi valley. The familiar though excellent 

 text-figures, chiefly of the heads of an example of each 

 genus, have been retained throughout, and the work is 

 further embellished with a series of eight coloured plates 

 reproduced by Messrs, Bale & Danielsson from the accurate 

 and living pictures of INlr. Baker himself. 



We shall look forward to seeing the succeeding volumes, 

 and in the meantime commend Mr. Baker's new venture to 

 all Indian ornithologists as a worthy successor of the old 

 '' Gates and Blanford." 



Baldivin on Bird-banding. 



[Adventures in Bird-banding in 1921. By S. Prentiss Baldwin. 

 Auk, xxxix. 1922, pp. 210-224, 2 pis.] 



[Bird-banding Notes, no. 1, April 1922, pp. 1-9 (mimeographed), 

 issued by the U. S. Dept. Agr., Washington, B.C.] 



The first of these papers is mainl}^ educative and includes 

 some account of the work of bird-ringing, or bird-banding 

 as it is more usually termed in America, undertaken by 

 the author at Thomasville, Georgia, in the spring of 1921. 

 A good many individual birds — Blue Jays and Cardinals — 

 have been trapped for several successive years, showing how 

 strictly resident these species are, while among the migrants 

 the White-throated Sparrow [Zonotrichia albicollis) returns 

 year after year to the same spot. One individual has been 

 trapped by Mr. Baldwin in 1916, 1917, 1921, and generally 

 on sevei-al occasions in each year during February and 



