640 Recently published Ornithological JJ'orks. 



XLV. — Notices of recent Ornithological Publications. 



[Continued from p. 471.] 



80. Baer on Birds from Tucuman. 



[Note sur line Collection d'Oiseaux du Tucuman (Eepublique Argen- 

 tine), par M. G. A. Baer. Onus, xii. no. 3, p. 209. Paris, 1904.] 



M. Baer was in Tucuman from September 1902 to April 

 1903 : he gives us a list of the localities which he visited, 

 their altitudes and peculiarities. The highest of these was 

 the Cerro Pelado (5000 metres), in the "Puna" region, 

 where he obtained examples of the rare Coot Fulica cornuta 

 (cf. Rothschild, Bull. B. O. C. xiv. p. 38). M. Baer collected 

 specimens of 191 species, of which he gives us a catalogue, 

 adding a few short notes. Four of these species have lately 

 been described as new by M. Oustalet under the names 

 Bvarremon baeri 3 Upucerthia baeri, Siptornis lilloi, and 

 S. hilareti*. Eleven of the species enumerated by M. Baer 

 are not included in Sclater and Salvin's ' Argentine Ornitho- 

 logy/ Among these are two Humming-birds — Petasophora 

 iolata and Oreotrochilns estclhe, both from Lara (4000 

 metres). 



81. Balducci on the Sternum of Athene chiaradise. 



[Osservazioni sullo stemo dell' Athene chiaradice (Gigl.) del Dott. 

 Enrico Balducci. Arcliivio Zoologico, Napoli, i. pp. 375-380.] 



The author, who is preparing a work on the sterna of 

 birds, has examined a skeleton of the curious Italian Owl 

 Athene chiaradice (see 'Ibis,' 1903, p. 1), and points out the 

 slight differences between its sternum and that of the nearly 

 allied A. noctua. He is inclined to accept Prof. Giglioli's 

 view that A. chiaradice is a kind of " new species in process 

 of formation/'' 



82. Bangs on Birds from Honduras. 



[Birds and Mammals from Honduras. By Outrani Bangs. Bull. Mus. 

 Comp. Zool. xxxix. no. 6 (1903).] 



The author describes a collection made by Mr. W. \Y . 

 Brown, Jr., in the early winter of 1902, in the vicinity of 

 * Bull. Mus. d'H. X. 1904, no. 2, p. 45. 



