'8S3-] Recc7it Literature. i6q 



ocularis Swinh. and De?idrceca vieillot i bryaiiti &rQ recordQA from La Paz, 

 Lower California, the former a straggler from Asia, the other previously 

 known only from Southern Mexico and Central America. In the sixth 

 paper are described six new i-aces of American birds, as follows : Meth- 

 riopterus curvirostris occidentalism from the coast region of Western Mex- 

 ico ; Mimtis gilvus lawreiicii, fi-om the Isthmus of Tehuantepec; Merula 

 fiavirostris graysoni, from the Tres Marias Islands ; Sialia sialis guate- 

 malcE, from the highlands of Guatemala ; Ckamcea fascicita henshaxvi, 

 from the "interior districts of California, including west slope of Sierra 

 Nevada; north to S'acramento, south to Walker's Basin, Tejon Mts., and 

 San Diego" ; and Perisoreus canadensis nigricafillus, from Labrador, 

 considered as the Atlantic coast representative of the littoral race of Alaska, 

 known as P. canadetisis fumifro7is. In the seventh paper Mr. Ridgway 

 restricts the genus Harporhynckus to the H. redivivus group, and adopts 

 Methriopterus Reich for the H. ruftis group. On Harforhynchus gray- 

 soni he founds his new genus Mimodes. In the eighth paper he distin- 

 guishes two new races and two new species of North American birds'; as 

 follows : Catherpes mexicanus puncttclatus^ from California (extending 

 north to San Francisco and the Calaveras River) ; Lophophanes inornatus 

 griseus. Middle Province' of the United States; Geotklypis beldingi, from 

 San Jose, Lower California; and Rallus beldingi, from Espiritu Santo 

 Islands, Lower California. The latter is said to most resemble R. elegans. 

 -J. A. A. 



Reichenow and Shalow's Compendium of newly described Gen- 

 era AND Species of Birds.* — This convenient summary, sufficiently 

 explained by its title, is still continued. As already noticed (this Bulletin, 

 Vol. VI, p. Ill), it gives transcripts of the original diagnoses, when such 

 are given, and in other cases mentions the types of the genera and the 

 alleged characteristics of the species. — J. A. A. 



Reichenow's Conspectus Psittacorum.I — The order Psittaci is di- 

 vided into 9 families and 45 genera (including 27 subgenera) ; 444 species 

 and subspecies are recognized. The higher groups are characterized, and 

 Latin diagnoses are given of the species, together with their principal 

 synonyms, and references to figures and the more important works relating 

 to the species. English and French, as well as German, vernacular names 

 are given. The monograph thus forms a convenient handbook of this 

 interesting 01-der. It originally appeared in parts in the "Journal fiir 

 Ornithologie" for 1881.— J. A. A. 



*• Compendium der neu beschreibenen Gattungen und Arten. Von Anton Reichenow 

 und Herman Shalow. Journ. fur Orniih., XXIX Jahrg., 1881, pp. 70-102, 417-423; 

 XXX Jahr., 1882, pp. 111-120, 213-228. 



t Conspectus Psittacorum. Systematische Uebersichte aller bekanten Papageienarten. 

 Von Dr. Ant. Reichenow. 8vo, Berlin, 1882, pp.234. (Sonderabdruck aus Journal 

 fur Ornithologie, XXIX Jahrg., 1881, pp. 1-49, 113-177. 225-289, 337-398.) 



