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ocularis Swinh. and Dendrceca vieilloti bryanti are recorded 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 races of American birds, as follows : Meth- 
riopterus curvirostris occidentalism from the coast region of Western Mex- 
ico; Mimus gilvus lawrencii, from the Isthmus of Tehuantepec; Merula 
flavirostris graysoni, from the Tres Marias Islands; Sialia sialis guate- 
malce , from the highlands of Guatemala ; Chamcea fasciata henshaxvi , 
from the “interior districts of California, including west slope of Sierra 
Nevada; north to Sacramento, south to Walker’s Basin, Tejon Mts., and 
San Diego” ; and Perisoreus canadensis nigricapillus , from Labrador, 
considered as the Atlantic coast representative of the littoral race of Alaska, 
known as P. canadensis fumifrons. In the seventh paper Mr. Ridgway 
restricts the genus Harporhynchus to the H. redivivus group, and adopts 
Methriopterus Reich, for the II. rufus group. On Harporhynchus 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 punctulatus , from California (extending 
north to San Francisco and the Calaveras River) ; Lophophanes inornatus 
griseus, Middle Province of the United States ; Geothlypis 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. hi), 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.f — 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 order. It originally appeared in parts in the “Journal fur 
Ornithologie ” for 1881. — J. A. A. 
* Compendium derneu 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. m-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, 1 13-177, 225-289, 337-398.) 
