ey Recent Literature. 4I 7 
contain respectively comments on such occurrences during the year as 
seem of special interest, and the observations received from the Faroes. 
The paper ends with a map, showing the locations of about eighty 
Danish lights. —GerrRrRiIT S. MILLER, JR. 
Lane’s Field-Notes on the Birds of Chili.!.—Students of South 
American birds should be grateful to Dr. Sclater for publishing the valu- 
able series of notes constituting this paper. Mr. Lane was sent to Chili 
by the late Mr. H. B. James to gather material which, in connection with 
his own observations, was to be used in a proposed work on Chilian birds.” 
Lane was in the field from November, 1889, to December, 1890, during 
which time he made collections and observations near Santiago, in the 
Province of Tarapaca, in northern Chili, and in the Provinces of Arauco 
and Valdivia and the Island of Chiloe in southern Chili. The notes here 
given by Dr. Sclater from Lane’s journals relate to 124 species and are of 
exceptional interest. They were evidently written by a keen, appreciative 
observer, and he gives us well-drawn character sketches of birds concern- 
ing whose life histories we previously had very little reliable information. 
Often a page or more is devoted to a description of the habits and 
haunts of a single species and there are particularly satisfactory accounts 
of such representative Chilian species as members of the genera Phyfo- 
toma, Pteroptochus, Hylactes, Thinocorus, Nothoprocta and others.—F. M. C. 
Richmond on Madagascan Birds.*— As a result of a few months’ col- 
lecting (February to July, 1895) in Madagascar, mainly on the east coast, 
Dr. Abbott has forwarded to the U.S. National Museum 217 specimens 
of birds. These are referred by Dr. Richmond to 83 species, one of which, 
Egialitis thoracica, he has before described,* while two others, Tha/as- 
sornis insularis and Copsychus tnexpectatus, are here for the first time 
described as new. —F. M. C. 
An Ohio Grackle Roost.°— This paper contains the results of one 
season’s work, from the arrival of the Grackles on March 9g to theie 
‘ Field-notes on the Birds of Chili. By Ambrose A. Lane. With an Intro- 
duction and Remarks by P. L. Sclater. The Ibis, January, 1897, pp. 8-51 ; 
April, pp. 177-195; July, pp. 297-317. Figg. 5. 
= C/V Auk PX 1893; Pp. 354. 
* Catalogue of a Collection of Birds made by Doctor W. L. Abbott in Mada- 
gascar, with Descriptions of three new species. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XIX, 
pp- 677-694. Received May 19, 1897. 
*Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., X, 1896, p. 53. 
* The Oberlin Summer Grackle Roost. By Lynds Jones. = Bulletin No. nce 
Wilson Ornithological Chapter of the Agassiz Association. Oberlin, Ohio, 
July 30, 1897. 12mo. pp. 37-56, 2 maps, I cut in text. 
