386 Recently published Ornithological Works . 
which he catalogues 364 species, may be considered as a 
complete resume of the present state of our knowlege of the 
Ornis of the Rio Madeira. 
After a short introduction, which contains remarks on 
previous writings on the subject and an exact account of the 
localities visited by Mr. Hoffmanns, Mr. Hellmayr takes the 
364 species in systematic order and adds pertinent remarks on 
their affinities and relationships. No one knows the birds of 
Tropical South America better than Mr. Hellmayr, and we 
consider this a most valuable piece of work, though we 
cannot, of course, agree to some of his proposed changes of 
nomenclature. To alter the name of Xipholena pompadora 
would be a great mistake. It is by no means certain that 
Pallas was the author of the <f Adumbrationes ” or that the 
Alcedo dea of Linnseus was a Jacamar. When it is quite 
manifest thatSwainson made an error in writing u Leptoptila” 
without a “p” why should we not use the grammatical 
spelling ? Again, why omit the “ h ” in Platyrhynchus ? We 
use the Latin language in Science and we ought to follow 
the rules of the Latin grammar. We are quite certain that 
Sclater never named a bird Granatellus pelzelni pelzelni. Why, 
then, should it be attributed to him (p. 265) ? 
Three new names seem to have been first used in this 
paper— Tachypbonus cristatus madeirce, Pipra aureola calamce , 
and Grallaria macularia diluta. 
43. Hiesemann on the Protection of Wild Birds. 
[How to Attract and Protect Wild Birds. By Martin Hiesemann. 
Translated by Emma S. Buchheim, with an Introduction by Her Grace 
the Duchess of Bedford. Second Edition, revised. London : Witherby 
& Co., 1911.] 
This little work, which has passed through three German 
editions, and of which the first large English edition was soon 
exhausted, contains an account of the various methods so 
sucessfully adopted by Baron Hans von Berlepsch for the 
encouragement and protection of birds on his estate of 
Seebach in Thuringia. 
E’or many years the Baron has been making experiments 
in various ways to encourage the breeding of birds, and he 
