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these various p&pers the osteology of the species treated is described at 
length, compared with that of related forms, and illustrated with numerous 
excellent figures of the principal elements of the skeleton.—J. A. A. 
Gould’s Supplement to the Trochilide.*— The ‘Supplement to the 
Trochilide, or Humming Birds,’ now recently completed in five parts, 
was projected shortly before Mr. Gould’s death in 1881. It forms a single 
folio volume of 58 plates and text, prepared and published under the 
direction of Mr. R. Bowdler Sharpe, with the codperation of Mr. Osbert 
Salvin. The work on the Hummingbirds, as now completed, forms six 
imperial folio volumes, with upwards of 400 plates, illustrating about 
450 species. It is needless to say that this magnificent monograph of the 
most beautiful and interesting family of birds, illustrated with a delicacy 
and gorgeousness well befitting the gems of bird life it portrays, is not 
only a monument to its author, but one of the most attractive ornitho- 
logical works yet produced. While the ‘Supplement’ falls somewhat 
short of covering the whole field of recent discovery in respect to this 
group of birds, it forms a fitting conclusion to the great ‘Monograph’ 
begun by Gould in 1849—nearly forty years before the completion of the 
‘Supplement.’—J. A. A. 
Publications Received.—Berlepsch, Hans von. (1) Description of two 
New Birds from Northern Peru. (Ibis, Apr. 1889, pp. 180, 181, pl. VI.) (2) 
Beschreibung eines neuen Colibri und Bemerkungen iiber eines Collection 
von Vogelbalgen aus der Umgegend von Sta. Fé de Bogota in Colombia. 
(Zeits. f. Orn., 1887, pp. 177-187, pl. iii.) (3) Systematisches Verzeichniss 
der von Herrn Gustav Garlepp in Brasilien und Nord Peru, im Gebiete 
desoberen Amazonas gesammelten Vogelbialge. (Journ. f. Orn., Jan., 
1889). 
Brewster, W. The Woodcock and the Worm. (Forest & Stream, Aug. 
I, 1889.) (2) The Woodcock’s Whistle. (Ibid., Aug. 22, 1889.) 
Bryant, W. E. Descriptions of the nests and eggs of some Lower Cali- 
fornia Birds, with a Description of the young plumage of Geothlypzs 
beldingt. (Proc. California Acad. Sci., 1889, pp. 20-27.) 
Chapman, Frank M. (1) A Revision of the genus Xzphorhynchus 
Swainson, with Descriptions of two New Species. (Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. 
Hist., II, pp. 153-162, July 5, 1889.) (2) Description of a New Species of 
Hummingbird of the Genus Amazzlza. (Ibid., pp. 168, 169, July, 1889.) 
Dalgleish, J. J. Notes on a Collection of Birds and Eggs from the Re- 
public of Paraguay. (Proc. Roy. Phys. Soc. Edinburg, X, pp. 73-88.) 
Foster, L.S. Some Nyack [N. Y.] Birds. (Nyack Even. Journal, 
Aug. 19, 1889.) 
Giglioli, H. H. Primo Resoconto dei Risultati della Inchiesta Ornito- 
logica in Italia. Parte Prima, Avifauna Italico, etc. 8vo, pp. 807, Fi- 
renze, 1889. , 
* Supplement to the Trochilidz or Humming Birds. One Volume, imp. folio, H. 
Sotheran and Co., London and Manchester, 1885-87. 
