504 Recently published Ornithological Works. 
have previously noticed only the two first parts (see 
''Ibis/ 1895, p. 488). Taking them altogether we have 
a complete account of the Oruis of one of the most varied 
and interesting districts of the Indian Empire, to which 
the energetic author has devoted unceasing attention for 
many years. The excellent field-notes contain accounts of 
numerous discoveries of nests and eggs not known to any 
other collector and of great rarity. The eggs of three 
species of Pitta are described/ as are also those of several 
little-known Cuckoos [Coccystes coromandus, Chalcococcyx 
maculatus, and Hierococcyx nisicolor), and full details of 
the curious nests of Batrachostomus are given. 
Cyanops robustirostris (on the plate called Mezobucco r.) 
and Corythocichla squamata are described as new to science 
and figured_, but the latter, Mr. Baker now tells us, is not 
diff"erent from Turdinulus mwinus (Blyth) . 
77. Bangs on Birds from Chiriqui. 
[I. On a Collection of Birds made bvAV. W. Brown, Ji'-, at David and 
Divala, Chiriqui. By Outi-am Bangs. The Auk, xviii. pp. 3oo-370. 
II. Description of a new Woodpecker from Chiriqui. By Outram 
Bangs. Pr. New EngL ZooL CI. ii. p. 99. 
III. On a Second Collection of Birds made in Chiriqui by W. W. 
Brown, Jr. By Outram Bangs. Ojj. cit. iii. pp. 15-70.] 
In the first paper an account is given of a collection of 
bird-skins made by Mr. W. W. Brown, jr., in the lowlands 
of Chiriqui, at David and Divala. In 58 days this energetic 
taxidermist managed to secure 1183 specimens of birds and 
many mammals besides. Mr. Bangs gives a list of about 160 
species, whereof six are ^' forms that appear to be new'"'; 
but it may seem to some of us that Mr. Bangs '^ cuts '' his 
species and subspecies '^ rather fiue.^^ We may also remark 
that Mr. Bangs does not seem to be aware of the existence 
of a paper on the birds of the same district published as 
long ago as 1856, or at any rate does not mention it (see 
P. Z. S. 1856, p. 138). 
The second paper is devoted to the description of a 
supposed new Woodpecker, based on a single specimen from 
