Uecentlij published Ornitholoyicul Works. 459 



HtUmayr on the Birds of Lower Amazonia, 



[Zoologische Ergebnisse einer Reise in das Miindungspebiet dea 

 Amazonas, herausgegeben vun Loreiiz Miiller. II. Vogel von C. E. 

 Ilellmayr. Abh. k. Bay. Akad. Wiss. xxvi. pp. 1-142. Munich, 1012.] 



Mr. C. E. Hellmayr is well placed at Munich, where he 

 seems to fiud ample material for the study ot" Neotropical 

 birds. He now gives us an excellent account of a collection 

 made at various places in Lower Amazonia by Herr Lorenz 

 Miiller, which, although affording good iuformation on 

 points of synonymy and distribution, does not make vis 

 acquainted with much that is absolutely new. In fact, the 

 ground near Para has been pretty well searched already — 

 Wallace, Natterer, Layard, Goeldi, and many other famous 

 collectors, having paid more or less attention to it. 



The present paper contains a list with full critical remarks 

 of the birds, 179 in number, obtained in the neighbourhood 

 of Parti. This is followed by a revision of all the species, 

 379 in number, hitherto recorded from the same district. 



The third and fourth parts of the paper are devoted to 

 the island of Mexiana and the fifth to the island of Marajd, 

 both of which lie in the Amazon delta. In the first named 

 of these an interesting new Deudrocolaptine bird, Siptornis 

 midleri, was discovered. Finally, there is a summary con- 

 taining an account of the zoo-geographical relations of the 

 avifauna of the whole region. 



Ingram on the Portuguese Long-tailed Tit. 



[Description of a new form of Long-tailed Tit. By CoUingwood 

 Ingram. Zoologist, xvii. 1913, p. 1-37.] 



Mr. Ingram finds that the Long-tailed Tit of Portugal 

 is much darker than that of Spain, which it otherwise 

 resembles, and proposes to call it j^githalus caudatus taiti, 

 after Mr. W. C. Tait. 



Menegaux on European Birds. 



[Catalogue des oiseaux de la Collection Marmottan du Museum 

 d'histoire naturelle de Paris. Par A. Menegaux. Reprinted from the 

 ' Bulletin de la Soci(5te Philomathique de Paris,' 1911 and 1912, pp. 1-21G. 

 Tours. 8voJ 



In this catalogue of the well-known collection of European 



