544 Recently published Ornithological Works. [Ibis, 
his pen, but by his lovable personality, which gained for 
him thousands of friends. His home “ Riverbv ” on the 
Hudson River, with its cabin-study “ Slabsides ” in the 
adjoining hills, and his summer retreat “ Woodchuck 
Lodge,” at his birthplace in the Catskills, were yearly 
visited by hundreds of his followers. It is gratifying to 
learn that within a month of his death a Memorial Asso¬ 
ciation was organized and incorporated to acquire these 
places which are so closely associated with Burroughs 5 life 
and works, and to preserve them as shrines for those 
who, in succeeding years, will know John Burroughs only 
through the written words which form his legacy to the 
world. 
XXIX.— Notices of recent Ornithological Publications. 
Bangs and Penard on American Birds. 
[Notes on some American Birds, cliiefly Neotropical, By Outrani 
Bangs and Thomas E. Penard. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Cambridge, 
Mass. lxiv. 1921, pp. 365-397.] 
An important systematic paper in which two new genera, 
one new species, and five new races are proposed, while a 
number of species and subspecies are reviewed, involving 
changes and corrections in nomenclature and synonymy. 
The new genera are Cometornis (perilously near Cos - 
metornis in our opinion) to take the place of Lophotriccus , 
with type Todirostrum squamacrista Lafres., and Muscifur 
near Myiarchus for type M. semirufus Scl. & Salv. The 
new species is Cometornis vitiosus from Peru, based on an 
old Lafresnaye specimen dating from early in the last 
century ! 
Beebe on the Pheasants. 
[A Monograph of the Pheasants. By William Beebe. Vol. ii. 
pp. xv+269; 24 col. pis., 24 photogr., 5 maps. London (Witherby 
for the New York Zoological Society), 1921. 4to.] 
The long-expected second volume of Mr. Beebe’s great 
