646 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



and co-exist side by side in Europe. Such cases have been 

 termed by Kleinschmidt " AfFenformen/' 



Of the two species, he identifies the larger form with an 

 unfeathered tarsus with Thunberg's description of " Hirundo 

 fuciphaga," while the smaller species he believes to be 

 identical with the bird described by Latham in his 'History 

 of Birds/ Suppl. ii. p. 257, and which was subsequently 

 named by Lesson Salangana vestita. 



In the latter part of his paper he gives diagnoses of several 

 new subspecies of the larger Javanese type-form, i. e., 

 Collocalia fuciphaga micans from Sumba, Savu_, and Timor, 

 C.f. hirundinacea from the Snow Mountains of Dutch New 

 Guinea, and C.f. moluccarum from the Kei and South-east 

 Islands. 



Schaub on the Pterylography of the Kagu. 



[Das Gefieder von Rhinochetus Jubattis und seine Postembryonal e 

 Entwicklung. Von Samuel Schaub. N. Denkschr. Schweiz. Nat. Ges. 

 Bd. 14, Abh. 2, 1914, pp. 65-118, 1 Taf., 12 text-fig.] 



The Kagu of New Caledonia has for a long time occupied 

 an anomalous position in our classificatory system, and 

 whether Mr. Schaub has been able to throw any further 

 light on its exact relationships seems somewhat doubtful; 

 but in the present number he has criticized and added to 

 the accounts already published by Murie and Burckhardt in 

 regard to the pterylography of this bird. 



He regards the ''powder-down^' patches, which form so 

 remarkable a feature of the feather-covering of the Kagu, 

 not as a primitive, but as a highly specialized set of organs. 



The second portion of the paper deals with the juveual 

 plumage and its development into that of the adult. 



Snethlage on the Birds of the Amazon Valley. 



[Oatalogo das Aves Amazonicas contendo todas as especies descriptas 

 e mencionadas ate 1913. Pela Dr. Emilia Snethlage. Bol. Museu 

 Goeldi, viii. 1914, pp. 1-532, 6 pis. & 1 map.] 



The Museum at Para, in Brazil, was formerly under the 

 Directorship of our Honorary Member, Dr. Emil A. Goeldi. 

 Since he retired and has gone to live in Switzerland, the 



