Recefithj published Ornithological Works. 635 



Count3^ About 275 species are enumerated^ each witli notes 

 on the status, habits, and history. Twenty-four plates^ pre- 

 pared from photographs by Mr. Warren, illusti^ate the text^ 

 which is prefaced by an introduction containing an account 

 of the topography, life-zones, climate, ornithological history, 

 and bibliography of the county. 



Bangs and Phillips on Yunnan Birds. 



[Notes on a Collection of Birds from Yuunan. By Outram Bangs and 

 John 0. Phillips. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard Coll. vol. Iviii. 1914, 

 pp. 267- 302.] 



This paper contains a list of a large collection of over 

 1300 bird-skins made by a Japanese collector in southern 

 Yunnan and acquired by the Museum of Comparative 

 Zoology at Cambridge, Mass. The collection was formed 

 almost entirely in the neighbourhood of Meugtze, a con- 

 siderable town now nearly reached by the railway. It stands 

 at an elevation of almost 4500 ft., and is bordered by 

 mountains which run up to a height of about 8000 ft., among 

 which it appears most of the collecting was done. 



The last paper on the birds of Yunnan is that published 

 by Mr. CoUingwood Ingram in 1912 (Nov. Zool. vol. xix. 

 pp. 269-310), and to the 352 forms there catalogued 

 Messrs. Bangs and Phillips here add seventy-eighty thirteen 

 of which are_, in their opinion, novelties. They notice that 

 this region appears to be a favourite winter resort of many 

 birds which breed further north^ since among the collection 

 there are several series of a species made up of two dis- 

 tinct subspecies — one^ sometimes both^ of which, judging bv 

 the dates on the labels, do not breed in the neighbourhood 

 of Mengtze. 



The new forms described are as follows : — Arhoricola 

 rufogularis euroa, Bambusicola oleaginia, Niltava sundara 

 denotata, Crijptolopha trivirgatus eiuncldus, Pericrocoius 

 hrevirosiris ethologvs, P. b. jlavillaceus (from the north-west 

 Himalaya of India), Alcurus striutus paulus, Spizixus 

 canifrons ingrami, lantkocincla lustrabiUa, Pomatorhinus 

 macclellandi odious, P. rnjlcollis recondilus, Actinodara 



