Recently published Oraitholuyical IForks. 457 



XXV. — Notices of recent Ornithological Publications. 



Arrigoni and Damiani on the Birds of the Tuscan Islands. 



[Note sopra una raccolta di Uccelli dell' Arcipelago Toscano. Dr. E. 

 Arrigoni deg-li Oddi e Dr. G. Damiani, Rivista Ital. di Ornitologia, i. 

 1911^ pp. 7-62, and 1912, pp. 241-201.] 



This paper contains a list o£ the birds o£ the islands o£ 

 Elba, Capraia, Gorgona, Monte Cristo, Pianosa, Giglio, and 

 Gianmitri, which lie between the coast of Tuscany and 

 Corsica. From the first four of these islands the authors 

 have examined examples of 60, 57, 11, and 8 species respec- 

 tively. Dr. Arrigoni does not recognize any subspecies 

 peculiar to any one of the islands and, moreover, is inclined 

 to doubt the validity of many of those described from Corsica 

 and Sardinia. 



Dahbene on the Birds of Paraguay. 



[Contribucion a la Ornitologia del Paraguay. Notas sobre las aves 

 coloctadas en Villa Rica por el Senor Felix Posner por Roberto Dabbene. 

 Anales Mus. Nac. Hist. Nat. .Buenos Aires, xxiii. 1912, pp. 283-390.] 



Senor Dabbene here gives a list of 86 species of 

 Paraguayan birds, collected for the Buenos Ayres JMuseum, 

 near Villa Rica by Seiior Posner. He finds among them some 

 which have not previously been met with in that Republic, 

 namely Caprimulgus rufus, Xenops genibarbis pelzelni, and 

 P seudocolopteryx sclateri. Senor Dabbene believes that the 

 rivers Paraguay and Parana below Corrientes form a fairly 

 well-marked faunistic boundary, species found in the Chaco 

 territory being usually represented by distinct geographical 

 races or subspecies in Paraguay and the provinces of 

 Corrientes and IMisiones. 



Grinnell on the Band-tailed Pigeon. 



[The outlook for conserving the Band-tailed Pigeon as a Game Bird 

 of California. By Joseph Grinnell. Condor, xv. 1913, pp. 25-40.] 



The Band-tailed Pigeon (Columba fasciata) is a western 

 bird ranging from southern British Columbia to northern 



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