156 Recently published Ornithological Works. [Ibis, 
wife, who was his constant companion and herself a first- 
rate collector, was in the vicinity of Chap ad a and Cuyuba, 
in the Province of Matto Grosso in Brazil. The large 
collection of birds secured in that region is now divided 
between the British Museum and the American Museum of 
Natural History. In 1889 the Smiths collected in Mexico 
for Mr. Godman, who was then amassing material for the 
4 Biologia Central!-Americana/ From 1890 to 1895 they 
were in the West Indies, in the interests of the West Indian 
Committee of the Boyal Society and British Association. 
Later he collected in Colombia for the Carnegie Museum. 
Here, however, he became so seriously ill that he had to 
give up all further work in the Tropics. 
A sketch of his life by Dr. W. J. Holland will be found in 
4 Science ' (vol. xlix. 1919, pp. 481-483). 
IX.— Notices of recent Ornithological Publications. 
Cory’s Catalogue of American Birds. 
[Catalogue of Birds of the Americas and the adjacent Islands in the 
Field Museum of Natural History. By Charles B. Cory. Ft. ii. no. 2. 
Families Trogonidae, Cuculidae, Capitonidae, Khamphastidae, Galbulidae, 
Bucconidae, and Picidae. Pp. 317-607, 1 col. pi. Field Museum of 
Natural History Publication no. 203, Zool. ser. vol. xiii. Chicago, 
U.S.A., Bee. 31, 1919.] 
The second part of Mr. Cory's Catalogue of the Birds of 
the Americas contains the lists of the species of the remaining 
families of Picarian birds left over from Part I. published in 
1918 and reviewed in 4 The Ibis ' (1918, p. 500). The present 
part follows the lines of the previous one, and contains 
descriptions of all those species not mentioned in the Cata¬ 
logue of the Birds in the British Museum or in Bidg way's 
4 Birds of North and Middle America.' We are very glad to 
see a great improvement in the proof-reading, and have hardly 
noticed any of the misprints which disfigured the first part. 
