547 
1921 .] Recently published Ornithological Works. 
the more detailed arrangement of route-lines sucli as were 
first proposed by the late Prof. Palmen. 
Chapman on South-American Birds. 
[Descriptions of apparently new Birds from. Bolivia, Brazil, and 
Venezuela. By Frank M. Chapman. American Museum Novitates, 
No. 2,1921, pp. 1-8.] 
Eight new forms are described. Of these, four are new 
species as follows :—Capito brunneipectus, Nonnula amauro- 
cephala , and Microrhopias emilice from Brazil, belonging 
to the Museum Goeldi at Para, and Rhopochares cocha- 
bambee from Bolivia, collected by Miller and Boyle for the 
American Museum. 
The periodical in which these appear is a new one and is 
stated to be “ issued as occasion requires for the publication 
of preliminary announcements etc. The articles are to be 
numbered serially and paged independently.” 
Courtois on the Birds of China. 
[Les Oiseaux du Musee de Zi-ka-wei. Mem. concernant l’Histoire 
Naturelle de l’Empire Chinois par des Peres de la Compagnie de Jesus. 
Vol. v. cahier 3, fasc. 1-4, pp. 1-121, pis. 1-45, 1912-1918.] 
There has recently reached us from China a memoir on 
the birds of the Zikawei Museum, near Shanghai, in four 
quarto parts. Though nowhere stated in so many words, 
the letterpress and the plates appear to be the work of the 
Rev. R. L. Courtois, S.J., the Director of the Museum and 
a member of our Union. 
The Museum of Zikawei was founded by the late 
Pere Heude, who travelled extensively in China and 
Malayan countries. I 11 the present publication is a list 
of the birds in the collection, arranged according to Oustalet 
and David’s work on the birds of China, with Latin and 
Chinese names, localities, and remarks on the nests and 
eggs when in the collection. The first fascicule contains a 
list of 318 species in the collection, the second a series 
of 13 plates of nests and eggs of Chinese birds, the latter 
