666 Recentlij pKblislied Oni'iUioloyical Jf^orks. 



ciiauonotus, Rufous and Martineta Tinamous, and Wild 

 Turkevs, and the arrival of the first living example of 

 BdUeniceps rex h\'o\\^\\iio ]^A\\'0\)e since 1800. Hemprich's 

 Gull has reared young in the Gardens, and the living chicks 

 prove quite unexpectedly to be nearly uniform buffish white 

 in colour. 



In these numbers also Mr. Finn gives a good resume of 

 the facts concerning sexual selection, and Mr. Sta})les Browne 

 continues liis notes on Birds seen on the White Nile. The 

 other papers are of a more purely avicultural character, among 

 which we may notice tliat Mr. Teschemaker has bred the 

 Crested Lark in confinement. 



91. Cltapniun un. apparently new Colombian Birds. 



[Diagnoses of appareutly new Colombian J'irds. Jiy Frank M. 

 Chapman. IjuIL Amer. Mus. N. II. xxxi. pp. lo9-166.") 



In November 1910 the American Museum of Natural 

 History sent out a taxidermist witli instructions to make 

 collections on the western slope of the Western Andes, 

 from the port of Buenaventura to San Antonio at the 

 summit of the pass which leads to Cali in the Cauca Valley. 

 In the following year Mr. Chapman and other Collectors 

 joined the party, and the result was a series of 5058 biid- 

 skins Irom this little-known district, the more lernarkable 

 of which are described in the present paper. The species 

 and subspecies believed to be new are the following : — 



Cry pturiis sold cuuae yChamaepetec sanctce-niartJue, Leptvptiln 

 verreaiuvi occidento/is, Pio7Wpsitla fueriesi, Capito niacidi- 

 coronatus rnbrilateralis^ Veniliorids niyriceps equifasciulus, 

 lihatiqihoccenus rufiventris f/riseo-dorsalis, Drynwphiht caudata 

 striaticeps, Furmicarius rufipectus carrikeri, Grallaria vdUeri, 

 G. alleni, Upucerthia excelsior Columbiana, Synallaxis gularis 

 rufipectus, S. g. cinereiventris, Picolaptes lacrymiger sanctce- 

 martlue, Knipolegus columbianus, Muscisaxicola alpi7ia Colum- 

 biana, Tyranniscus chrysops minimus, T. nigricapillus flavi- 

 mentum, Flatypsaris liomoclirous canescens, Attila fuscicauda, 

 Rupicola peruviana aurea, Fhaoprogne taper a immaculata, 



