580 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



Mr. Bangs comes to the conclusion that this supposed species, 

 of which only one example is known, is probably a "freak" 

 or " sport " of Icterus giraudi. 



66. Bangs on the Races of Chlorophanes. 



[The Name of the Panama Green Honey-Creeper. By Outram Bangs. 

 Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, xviii. p. 185.] 



It is shown that the race of Chlorophanes spiza of Panama 

 is C. s. exsul and not C. s. guatemalensis. 



67. Bangs on the Cuban Crab- Hawk. 



[The Cuban Crab-Hawk, Urubitinga gundlachii (Cabanis). By Outram 

 Bangs. Auk, xxii. p. 307.] 



Mr. Bangs maintains that the Cuban representative of 

 Urubitinga anthracina is quite a distinct species, and restores 

 to it the name gundlachii originally applied to it by Cabanis. 

 He also gives details as to its nesting and eggs. 



68. Beebe on the Bird-life of Mexico. 



[Two Bird-lovers in Mexico. By C. William Beebe. London : 

 Constable & Co. 1 vol. 8vo. Pp. 408.] 



Mr. Beebe, the Curator of Ornithology in the Zoological 

 Park of New York, passed the winter of 1903-4- in the States 

 of Jalisco and Colima in South-western Mexico. Accom- 

 panied by his wife, who is evidently quite as much a " Bird- 

 lover " as himself, be landed from a steamer at Vera Cruz 

 on Christmas Day, 1903, and arrived at Guadalajara by rail a 

 week later. Hence three " camping-trips " were made in 

 the vicinity of the Volcano of Colima, and the Pacific was 

 visited at the harbour of Manzanillo. Although the birds 

 of this part of Mexico are well-known by their skins, very 

 few field-notes have as yet been written on them. Mr. Beebe's 

 most interesting narrative is full of information through- 

 out its course, while details are also given of other natural 

 objects observed, both zoological and botanical. The 

 numerous text-figures, mostly very good in execution, are 

 an additional attraction to the work, which, we are sure, 

 will attain a wide circle of appreciation among those who 



