Recently published Ornithological Works. 203 
8. Chapman on new Venezuelan Birds. 
[Descriptions of five apparently new Birds from Venezuela. By 
Frank M. Chapman. Bull. Am. Mus. N. H. xii. p. 153 (1899).] 
From a collection made in Venezuela in the mountains 
near San Antonio, about 90 miles from Cumana, by Mr. F. 
W. Uriah, which contains examples of 37 species, the following 
are described as new : — Setophaga verticalis pallidiventris, 
Chlorospingus (. Hemispingus ) canipileus , Mecocerculus nigri- 
ceps, M. urichi, and Synallaxis striatipectus. 
9. Bordeaux on the Birds of the Humber District. 
[A List of British Birds belonging to the Humber Disrict. (Having a 
special reference to their Migrations.) Revised to April 1899. By 
John Cordeaux. 8vo. London : R. H. Porter, 1899.] 
A melancholy interest attaches to this little work, because, 
as we remarked in the obituarial notice of our late 
friend and brother-member of the B.O. U., it was finished 
only a short time before his lamented death. In this valuable 
supplement to the author’s earlier and larger work on the 
same subject (published in 1872), the number of species is 
raised to 322, and a wonderful amount of recent information 
is conveyed in a small compass. This is owing, of course, 
in a great measure to the work of the Committee on Mi¬ 
gration of which Cordeaux was a leading member. The list 
is a model. It is unfortunate that by a typographical error 
the line “ Order Tubinares 39 should have slipped from its 
proper place, which is above—and not below—“ Family 
Procellariidse.” 
10. Dahl on the Habits of the Birds of the Bismarck 
Islands. 
[Das Leben der Vogel auf den Bismarckinseln. Von Fr. Dahl. 
Mitteil. Mus. f. Nat. in Berlin. Band I. Heft 2, 1899.] 
Following Dr. Reichenow’s account of the birds of the Bis¬ 
marck Islands and in connection with it (see below r , p. 211), 
we have an excellent essay on the lives and habits of the 
feathered inhabitants of these little-known lands by one who 
has evidently studied them to great advantage. Among a 
