158 
Recently published Ornithological Works . [Ibis, 
11. Hans Graf von Berlep-scli—Eine Lebensskizze. Id., Journ. Ornith. 
1915, pp. 557-568, portrait. 
12. Description of a new Formicarian Bird from Colombia, by 
E. Hellmayr and Dr. J. v. Madarasz. Aquila, xii. 1914, p. 88. 
13. Nomenclator der Yog-el Bayerns. Von C. E. Hellmayr und II. Laub- 
mann. Pp. i-viii+1-68. Miincben (G. Fischer). 8vo. 
We have recently received from Dr. Hellmayr a set of 
bis publications during the war period, and the importance 
and accuracy of bis work demands this somewhat long 
notice. The first eight of the papers listed contain descrip¬ 
tions of new species and subspecies of Neotropical birds, and 
for the enumeration of these we must refer our readers to 
the ‘ Zoological Record/ in which the neAV forms are duly 
recorded. In the paper numbered 6, a new Andean Jay is 
characterized under the name Cyanolyca viridicyanea cyano- 
leema. This is obviously identical with the bird named and 
figured by Mr. W. L. Sclater in the October number of 
‘The Ibis’ of the same year, 1917 (p. 465, pi. viii.), and 
Hellmayr’s name, having been published in February, must 
take precedence. Another nomenclatural clash is in regard 
to the Fan-tailed Raven of north-eastern Africa, Corvus affinis 
Rupp, nec Shaw, which therefore requires a new name. 
Dr. Ilartert renamed it C. rhipidurus in the ‘Bulletin’ 
of the B. 0. Club, published Nov. 30, 1918 ; Hellmayr 
renamed it Corvus brachycercus in his Miscel. Orn. iv., 
published June 1919. 
In the ninth paper on our list Dr. Hellmayr criticises 
three recently published check-lists of European birds: our 
own B. O. U. list, to which he gives a good deal of praise ; 
that of Reichenow and Hesse (published in the f Journal fiir 
Ornithologie ’ for 1916) of German birds, which meets with 
scant approval as being reactionary ; and, finally, a Swiss list, 
published at Berne in 1915 and compiled by Th. Studer and 
G. von Burg. The 13th item on the list is Dr. Hellmayr’s 
own contribution to the check-lists, and a comparison of 
the names used by him in his Bavarian list with those 
of the B. O. U. list shows that there are but few points of 
disagreement between them. 
