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  Recently 
  published 
  Ornithological 
  Works. 
  

  

  colore 
  rubro 
  magis 
  extensOj 
  et 
  colore 
  flavo 
  capitis, 
  

   mentij 
  et 
  alarum 
  tectricum 
  minorum 
  minus 
  extenso 
  

   clistingueudus. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Island 
  of 
  Bonaire. 
  

  

  Remarks. 
  No 
  species 
  of 
  Chrysotis 
  is 
  found 
  on 
  Curasao, 
  but 
  

   Bonaire 
  and 
  Aruba 
  each 
  possess 
  a 
  species, 
  the 
  latter 
  island 
  

   having 
  C. 
  ochroptera 
  of 
  Venezuela. 
  The 
  new 
  species 
  is 
  

   named 
  after 
  the 
  Hon. 
  Walter 
  Rothschild, 
  who 
  took 
  very 
  

   great 
  interest 
  in 
  the 
  author's 
  expedition 
  to 
  Venezuela 
  and 
  

   the 
  West 
  Indian 
  Islands. 
  

  

  -r 
  Strix 
  flammea 
  bargei, 
  subsp. 
  n. 
  

  

  S. 
  minima 
  : 
  similis 
  <S. 
  flammece 
  verse, 
  sed 
  multo 
  minor 
  et 
  alis 
  

   valde 
  brevioribus 
  distinguenda. 
  Long. 
  tot. 
  12 
  poll., 
  alee 
  

   9*7, 
  caudse 
  4'3, 
  tarsi 
  2"2. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Island 
  of 
  Curafao. 
  

  

  Remarks. 
  This 
  is 
  a 
  very 
  small 
  insular 
  form, 
  totally 
  unlike 
  

   the 
  ordinary 
  Bani-Owl 
  of 
  the 
  West 
  Indies. 
  It 
  is 
  more 
  like 
  

   typical 
  S. 
  flammea, 
  but 
  is 
  very 
  much 
  smaller 
  and 
  has 
  such 
  

   short 
  wings 
  that 
  it 
  is 
  impossible 
  to 
  unite 
  it 
  to 
  that 
  species. 
  

   It 
  is 
  named 
  after 
  Mr. 
  Harry 
  Barge, 
  Governor 
  of 
  the 
  Dutch 
  

   West 
  India 
  Islands. 
  

  

  XI. 
  — 
  Notices 
  of 
  recent 
  Ornithological 
  Publications. 
  

   1. 
  Allen 
  on 
  the 
  Woodpeckers 
  of 
  North 
  America. 
  

  

  [The 
  North-American 
  Species 
  of 
  the 
  Genus 
  Colaptes, 
  considered 
  with 
  

   special 
  reference 
  to 
  the 
  relationships 
  of 
  C. 
  auratus 
  and 
  C. 
  cafer. 
  By 
  

   J. 
  A. 
  Allen. 
  Bull. 
  Am. 
  Miis. 
  Nat. 
  Hist. 
  iv. 
  p. 
  21, 
  1892.] 
  

  

  This 
  is 
  a 
  philosophical 
  discussion 
  of 
  the 
  well-known 
  case 
  

   of 
  Colaptes 
  auratus 
  and 
  C. 
  mexicanus 
  of 
  North 
  America, 
  and 
  

   their 
  intermediate 
  forms, 
  their 
  allied 
  species 
  and 
  subspecies 
  

   being 
  also 
  considered. 
  Mr. 
  Allen 
  has 
  taken 
  great 
  pains 
  in 
  

   this 
  matter, 
  and 
  for 
  its 
  investigation 
  has 
  collected 
  together 
  from 
  

   his 
  friends 
  and 
  correspondents 
  a 
  series 
  of 
  785 
  specimens, 
  

   "representing 
  all 
  the 
  North-American 
  and 
  West-Indian 
  forms 
  

   of 
  the 
  geniis.^' 
  The 
  main 
  question 
  is 
  as 
  to 
  the 
  status 
  to 
  be 
  

   assigned 
  to 
  the 
  numerous 
  " 
  mixed 
  ^' 
  forms 
  between 
  the 
  very 
  

  

  