668 Recently published Ornitholoqical Works. 
these have been completed, a general treatise on the Oology 
of Birds might Tvell be based upon this great mass of 
material. 
124. Oberholser on Humming-birds from Ecuador and 
Colombia. 
[Catalogue of a Collection of Humming-birds from Ecuador and 
Colombia. Bv Harry C. Oberholser. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxiv. 
pp. 309-342, 1902.] 
In this journal (Ibis, 1901, pp. 300, 458, 699; 1902, 
pp. 59, 207) we recently published an account of the very 
remarkable collection of birds made by Messrs. Claud 
Hamilton and Walter Goodfellow during their journey 
through Colombia and Ecuador in 1898 and 1899. The 
Humming-birds were not included in Mr. Goodfellow's 
memoir, because the whole of the specimens of that family 
of birds had been parted with to the United States National 
Museum. With the possible exception of that of Baron (see 
Nov. Zool. vol. i. p. 43), Messrs. Hamilton and Goodfellow's 
series of these birds '^ is probably the finest single collection 
ever made, comprising as it does 1136 specimens, almost all 
in fine condition and accompanied by proper data." Mr. 
Oberholser, to whom their examination has been entrusted, 
refers them to 109 species and subspecies. 
The author follows the arrangement of Mr. Hartert in 
the ' Tierreich,^ and gives many useful remarks besides the 
collectors^ notes. He describes as new: — Topaza pella 
pamprepta, from the Rio Napo ; Boissonneaua flavescens tino- 
chlora^ from West Ecuador ; Heliangelus exortis soderstromi, 
from Corazon, Ecuador ; and Zodalia thaumasta, from Chillo, 
Ecuador. Besides these, other species represented in the 
collection are rare and of much interest. 
125. Palmer on Legislation for Birds in the United States. 
[Legislation for the Protection of Birds other than Game-Birds. Bj 
T. S. Palmer. Bull. U.S. Dept. Agric, Div. of Biol. Surv., No. 12, 
Revised Edition, 1902.] 
Mr. Palmer tells us that at least twelve States of the 
Union haA^e passed new laws for the protection of birds since 
1900, while others have amended, re-enacted, or codified their 
