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Recently published Ornithological Works. [Ibis, 
the Bahama Islands, 5 published in 1771, down to photo¬ 
graphs of the last survivor of the species which lived in 
the Zoological Gardens at Cincinnati, and which is now 
mounted in the United States Museum at Washington. 
Dr. Shufeldt gives the palm to a plate reproduced from 
a painting by Mr. Fuertes which appeared in Eaton 5 s 
f Birds of New York/ published in 1910. 
The photographs of the plates were taken by Dr. Shufeldt 
himself, and form a most interesting series of reproductions. 
Stresemann on Sumatran Woodpeckers. 
[Die Spechte der Insel Sumatra—Eine monographische Studie. Von 
Dr. E. Stresemann. Arch. Naturg. vol. 87, Abt. A. pp. 64-120, 1S21.] 
It is in the Malay Peninsula and Sumatra that we find 
the greatest development of the Woodpeckers, the former 
containing 24, the latter 22 different forms, and Dr. Strese¬ 
mann has accomplished a most useful task in preparing the 
present monograph based on the material available in 
Germany, Holland, and at Tring. The nomenclature is 
carefully worked out, and should be taken note of by all 
workers on the birds of the Indian Region. Dinopium of 
Rafinesque takes the place of the more familiar Tiga 
of Kaup, and Blythipicus for Lepocestes of the Catalogue. 
New forms are :—Ficus vittatus limitans from Kangean I., 
near Bali, Callophus miniatus dayak from Borneo, Dinopium 
javanense palmarum from Sumatra. There is a carefully 
constructed key of all the forms treated of, and some 
interesting general remarks on geographical distribution, 
variation in size and colour, and sexual dimorphism and 
moult. 
Wollaston’s Life of Newton. 
[Life of Alfred Newton, Professor of Comparative Anatomy, Cambridge 
University, 1866-1907. By A. F. R. Wollaston. Pp. xvi + 332 $ 
portraits. London (John Murray), 1921. 8vo.] 
Newton apparently passed on one of his characteristics to 
liis biographer, for this long looked-for volume has appeared 
