464 Recently published Ornithuloyical Works, 



species from A. herodias, and the curious intermediate form 

 A. wurdemannii as a liytjrid between A. occidentalis and 

 A. h. wardi, tlius making plain the relationships of these 

 forms which have so long been a puzzle, but this matter will 

 be more fully discussed in a subsequent paper. 



OberJiolser on New Birds from Sumatra and its Islands. 



[Descriptious of one liiindred and four new species and subspecies of 

 Birds from the Barussan Islands and Sumatra. By Harry C. Oberholser. 

 Smitlisonian Miscell. Coll., vol. Ix. no. 7, 191:^, pp. 1-22.] 



This paper contains short differential characters of 104 

 forms of bird-life based on specimens obtained by the well- 

 known American traveller and collector Dr. W. L. Abbott, 

 chiefly in the Barussan Islands on the west coast of Sumatra. 

 It appears to be intended to publish a complete acccount of 

 the large collections of birds made by Dr. Abbott when he 

 visited many little-known localities among the East Indian 

 Islands. But we are rather surprised to see that such a 

 large number of new forms can be met with in Sumatra and 

 on the small islands that border it on the western side, and 

 we fear that Mr. Oberholser bases his "new subspecies'' on 

 somewhat small differences. " Like Psittinus cyanurus, but 

 decidedly larger ■" is rather a curt character for a new bird, 

 even in these days of trinomials. 



We need not re})rint the names of the 104 new species 

 and subspecies, but they will be easily found in the 

 original memoir. The specimens are all in the United 

 States National Museum at Washington. 



0(/i hie- Grant on the Birds' Eggs of the British Museum. 



[Catalogue of the Collection of Birds' Eggs in the British Museum 

 (Natural History). Volume V. Carinatse (Passeriformes completed). 

 By W. Pi. Oglivie-Grant. Pp. x.xiv-)- 548, plates i-xxii. London, 1912. 



8vo.] 



The issue of the fifth and last volume of the 'Catalogue 

 of the Birds' Eggs in the British Museum' is an event which 

 should not pass without a record, and we have great pleasure 

 in congratulating the authors on the completion of their 



