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 VoL lio XVI1 ] Recent Literature. 631 Avifauna of the western Pripjet Swamps. By 0. Graf Zedlitz— Bon- asia bonasia grassmanni (p. 227) is described as new from East Prussia. Journal fur Ornithologie. 68, special number. Birds of Egypt. (Insessores, Scansores and Coraces.) By Alexander Koenig. — A most elaborate treatment going into etymology of names, minute description of eggs with weights and measurements, etc. Ornithological Articles in Other Journals. Riley, J. H. Four New Birds from the Philippines and Greater Sunda Islands. (Proc. Biol. Society of Washington, 33, pp. 55-58. July 24, 1920.) — Anthreptes malacensis paraguae (p. 55) Palawan; A. in. bornensis (p. 55) Po Bui, N. Borneo; Enodes erythrophrys centralis (p. 56) Celebes; and Munia punctulata particeps (p. 57) Celebes. Oberholser, H. C. Description of a New Clapper Rail from Florida. (Ibid. pp. 33-34. July 24, 1920.)— Rallus longirostris helius (p. 33) Florida Keys. Hartert, E. More Notes on the Crested Larks of the Nile Valley (Novotates Zoologicae, XXVI, No. I, pp. 36-40, May, 1919). Baker, E. C. Stuart. Further Notes on Some Dicruridae (Ibid. pp. 41-45.) Hartert, E. Types of Birds in the Tring Museum. B. Types in the General Collection. (Ibid. pp. 123-178.)— This is only the first install- ment, Corvidae-Meliphagidae, and cover 338 types of which only 40 have proven to have been already described or otherwise invalid. The types in the Brehm collection were listed in Novit. Zool., 1918, pp. 4-63. Baker, E. C. Stuart. Some Notes on the Genus Surniculus. (Ibid., No. 2. January 20, 1920, pp. 291-294.)— S. lugubris steward (p. 293). Ceylon is described as new. Hartert, E. Explanation of Plates V and VI (Novit. Zool. XVI, No. 2, p. 358.) — Figuring the following rare species: Stjlvietta neumanni, Pachycephala moroka, P. tenebrosa. Melipotes, ater Dicaeum nigrilorc. Hartert, E. The Birds of the Commander Islands. (Ibid. No. 3, June 20, 1920, pp. 128-158.)— Description of a collection of 860 skins made by N. Sokolnikoff and now in the Tring Museum. It comprises 152 species of which Erolia maritime/, quarta (p. 137) is described as new. Hartert, E. and Gourdain, F. R. C, The Birds of Buckinghamshire and the Tring Reservoirs. (Ibid. pp. 171-259, PL XII and XIII.)— An admirable local avifauna. 'Some of these journals are received in exchange, others are examined in the library of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. The Editor is under obligations to Mr. J. A. G. Rehn for a list of ornithological articles contained in the accessions to the library from week to week.