Recently published Ornithological Works. 339 



33 new forms, most of them subspecies Avhich he believes to 

 be new. They are from collections made by Mr. M. A. 

 Carriker in Colombia and Venezuela and by Jose Steinbach 

 in Bolivia. 



A new Humming-bird from Bolivia — Microstilbon insper- 

 atus, gen. et sp. nov. — is sufficiently distinct from the 

 members of the allied Chatocercus to warrant the creation 

 of a new genus ; while the last novelty described in the 

 paper is a Bail, Rallus longirostris leucophceus, subsp. n.^ from 

 the Isle of Pines off the coast of Cuba. 



Tschusi on Austro-Hungarian Ornithology. 



[Ornithologische Literatur Osterreich-Ungarns, Bosniens und der 

 Herzegovina ]912, von Viktor Ritter v. Tschusi zii Schmidliotien. 

 Verhandl. der k, k. zool.-bot. Ges. in Wien, 1913, pp. 184-211. 



Ornithologische Kollektaneen aus Osterreich-Uugarn. xxi. 1912. 

 Ibid. Zool. Beobacht. liv. 1913. 



Ankunfts- und Abzugsdaten bei Hallein (1912). ix. Ibid. Ornith. 

 Monatsschr. 1913, pp. 208-214.] 



In the first of these papers von Tschusi gives his annual 

 record of the bird-literature of the Austro-Hungarian 

 Empire. The entries are all made under the authors' 

 names in alphabetical order, and include papers in the 

 German, Hungarian, Czech, and Cx'oatian languages. 



In the second contribution von Tschusi has extracted from 

 sporting and other newspapers such facts as he considers 

 worthy of more permanent record, and these are arranged 

 in systematic order under the species to which they refer. 



The third paper contains the dates of arrival and 

 departure of migratory birds in the grounds of the Villa 

 Tannenhof, near Hallein in Upper Austria, where the 

 residence of the author is situated. 



Tyler on the Birds of Fresno, California. 



[Some Birds of the Fresno District, California. By John G. Tj-^Ier. 

 Cooper Ornithological Club. Pacitic Coast Avifiiuua, no. 9, pp. 1-114. 

 Hollywood, Cal., 1913.] 



The town of Fresno lies in the great central valley of 

 California between the coast-range and the Sierra Nevada, 



