1889.] Recent Literature. 65 
lated, should have appeared in full under the names of the species to 
which they refer. 
The general appearance of the article is excellent, and the typography 
almost beyond criticism, while the reserve stores of information hinted 
at by the brief notes are such that we cannot but hope that in the near 
future we may be favored with a more carefully compiled and fully anno- 
tated list that will do yet greater credit to one who has had sixty-six years 
of practical field work and was the correspondent and friend of Audubon 
and Waterton.—E. E. T. 
Publications Received. — Barboza du Bocage, J. V. (1) Sur quelques 
Oiseaux de l’Ile St. Thomé. (Jor. de Sci. Math. Phys. e Nat. de Lisboa, 
XLVIII, 1888.) (2) Oiseaux nouveaux de I’Ile St. Thomé. (Ibid.) 
Bryant, W. E. Description of a new subspecies of Song Sparrow from 
Lower California, Mexico. (Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., 2d Ser., I, pp. 197- 
200. ) 
Jordan, D. S. A Manual of the Vertebrate Animals of the Northern 
United States, etc. 5thedition. 8vo., pp. iii +375. Chicago: A. C. 
McClurg & Co. 1888. 
Lawrence, G. N. Description of a New Species of Bird of the Genus 
Catharus, from Ecuador. (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1887, p. 503.) 
Nelson, E. W. Report upon Natural History Collections made in 
Alaska between the years 1877 and 1881. Edited by H. W. Henshaw, 
4to. pp. 337. 21 plates. Washington: Government Printing Office. 1887 
[=1888 ]. 
Newton, Sir Edward. Presidential Address before Norfolk and Norwich 
Naturalists’ Society, with Appendix containing List of the Birds of the 
Mascarene Islands, including the Seychelles. (Trans. Norfolk and Nor- 
wich Nat. Soc., IV, pp. 537-554-) 
Reichenow, Dr. A. Die Begrenzung Zoogeographischer Regionen 
vom ornithologischen Standpunkt. (Zool. Jahrb., Il, Abth. f. Syst., pp. 
671-704.) 
Sharpe, R. B. (1) On two apparently undescribed Species of Sturnus. 
(Ibis, 1888, pp. 438-440.) (2) On two new species of Starlings. (Ibid., 
pp- 476, 477-) (3) Diagnoses of some new Species of Birds obtained on 
the Mountains of Kina Balu by Mr. John Whitehead. (Ibid., pp. 478, 
479.) (4) Note on the Genus Rectes. (Ibid., pp. 435, 437.) (5) Further 
Descriptions of new Species of Birds discovered by Mr. John Whitehead 
on the Mountains of Kina Balu, Northern Borneo. (Ibid., pp. 383-396, 
pll. ix-xii.) (6) On a New Species of Accéfzter from Liberia. (Notes 
from the Leyden Museum, X, pp. 199, 200.) (7) On anew Species of 
Llainea fromtheIsland of Fernando Norohna. (P. Z. S., 1888, p. 107.) 
{8) Descriptions of some new Species of Birds from the Island of Guad. 
alcanar in the Solomon Archipelago, discovered by Mr. C. M. Woodford. 
(Ibid., pp. 182-185.) (g) Notes on Specimens in the Hume Collection 
of Birds. No.6. On some Species of the Genus Digena. (Ibid., pp. 246- 
247-) (10) List of a Collection of Birds made by Mr. L. Wray in the 
