1889. ] Recent Literature. 269 
As already noted, Mr. Barrows’s papers on the. ‘Birds of the Lower 
Uruguay,’ published a few years since in this journal, are freely cited, but 
unfortunately his species are not always correctly synonymized by our 
authors—a mistake in most cases excusable, since there is generally no 
clew, except the name, to the species really meant. Having recently had 
in hand many of Mr. Barrows’s specimens of the more difficult groups, it 
may be well, in the interest of future writers, to correctly allocate some 
of Mr. Barrows’s species thus misplaced in the ‘Argentine Ornithology.’ 
Cyclorhis viridis Barrows is naturally placed (Vol. I, p. 24) under C. 
altivostris Salv. [=C. viridis (Vieill.)], but Mr. Barrows’s specimens 
prove to be true C. ochrocephala. 
Elainea albiceps Barrows is Empidagra suiriri (Vieill.), and thus of 
course is naturally but wrongly placed (Vol. I, p. 145) under Z. albiceps 
(d’Orb. and Lafr.), which is Mr. Barrows’s &. modesta. 
Leptasthenura egithaloides Barrows is L. platensis Reich., a form Mr. 
Sclater doubtless does not admit. Mr. Barrows’s specimens, however. 
represent a bird very different from the true Z. e@githaloides of Chili. 
Phacellodomus ruber Barrows proves, on comparison of Barrows’s 
specimens with Lafresnaye’s types, to be the true P. sfréaticoll’s (d’Orb. 
and Lafr.). 
It is but fair to say that actual errors in the identification of Mr. Bar- 
rows’s species are chargeable either to myself or to Dr. Burmeister, 
whose opinions Mr. Barrows accepted (cf. Auk, I, p. 319).—J. A. A. 
Gould’s ‘Birds of New Guinea.’— In 1871 the late Mr. John Gould 
began the publication of a work in five volumes folio, on the Birds of New 
Guinea and adjacent islands,* to be issued in twenty-five parts. At the 
time of Mr. Gould’s death, in 1873, only twelve of the parts had been 
issued, the thirteen remaining parts having been prepared by Mr. R. 
Bowdler Sharpe, the eminent ornithologist in charge of the Department of 
Birds at the British Museum. The work contains 320 plates, in the ex- 
cellent style of Gould’s other well-known large folio works on the Birds 
of Asia, Australia, Great Britain, etc. The ‘Introduction,’ by Mr. Sharpe, 
gives a historical summary of ornithological exploration in New Guinea 
and the Papuasian Islands. The few Australian birds included, form, 
as it were, a further supplement to his ‘Birds of Australia.” A page 
of letter press accompanies each plate, describing the species figured, 
and giving a short sketch of its history. The many birds of gorgeous 
plumage inhabiting New Guinea and neighboring Islands—as the numer- 
ous species of Parrots, Birds of Paradise, and Fruit Pigeons—furnish won- 
derfully striking subjects for illustration. To say that the work is in 
Gould’s well-known style sufficiently indicates the high character of this 
magnificent contribution to ornithology.—J. A. A. 
* The Birds of New Guinea | andthe adjacent Papuan Islands, | including any 
new species that may be discovered in Australia. By | John Gould, F. R.S., etc. 
Part [s] I--XXV]. | .... London, Dec. 1875-Dec. 1888. 
