Recently published Ornithological Works. 735 
from examples in a collection made in Western Colombia by 
Mervyn G. Palmer, and received through Mr. Rosenberg. 
The new species and subspecies are named Odontophorus 
baliolus, Picumnus canus, Xiphorhynchus rosenbergi, Rhop- 
octites alogus, Mionectes olivaceus hederaceus , Pheugopedius 
spadix, P. mystacalis saltuensis, and Henicorhina leucosticta 
eucharis. 
78. Bangs on two rare Hawaiian Birds. 
[Unrecorded Specimens of two rare Hawaiian Birds. By Outram Bangs. 
Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, xxiii. p. 57.] 
The birds “ discovered ” in the recesses of the Museum of 
Comparative Zoology are Acrulocercus apicalis and Ciridops 
anna, both now (probably) extinct, and very rare in 
Collections. 
79. Beebe's ‘ Search for a Wilderness. 9 
[Our Search for a Wilderness. By Mary Blair Beebe and C. William 
Beebe. New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1910. $2‘75. With 398 
illustrations from photographs and 398 pp., 8vo.] 
Many of our readers will remember a charming account 
of a winter spent among the birds of Mexico by Mr. and 
Mrs. Beebe some years ago (see * Ibis/ 1896, p. 580). They 
have now gone further aheld, and during the last two winters 
have visited Venezuela and British Guiana. 
Mr. Beebe is one of the new school of naturalists, who 
believe in the camera and in the patient watching of birds. 
At the same time he is no fanatic in this respect, and has 
no sentimental objections to shooting and preserving speci¬ 
mens if required for the purpose of identification. He is also 
fully competent (with the help of his assistant, Mr. Lee S. 
Crandall) to enrich the Zoological Park of New York, where 
he is Curator of Onithology, with many additions to their 
living collection. 
Of his recent excursions to Venezuela and some of the 
results arrived at, Mr. Beebe has already given us an 
account in two papers lately published in the new Journal 
‘Zoologica > (see above, pp. 549, 550). A more popular 
