Recent Papers by Bangs and Penard A New Form of Edolius forflcatus (Linne) Outram Bangs Thomas E. Penard The Northern Form of Leptotila fulviventris Outram Bangs Thomas E. Penard A New Hummingbird from Surinam Thomas E. Penard

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Shufeldt on Subfossil Bird Remains from Bermuda.•--This paper originally prepared for publication by the American Museum of Natural History is based upon a collection in that Museum, the Mowbray collection in the U.S. National Museran, together with collections made by Messrs. Edward MeGall anal Anthony Tall, most or all of the last, we understand, being now in the Carnegie Museum at Pittsburgh.Dr. Shufeldt refers the material which is very extensive and mostly in an excellent state of preservation to three forms, Pufinus mcgalli (p.354) P. parvus (p.356) and Aestrelata voc•ferans (p.365), all of which are here described as new, the Aestrelata being identified with the fanmus "Cahow."Elaborate descriptions and figures of the various bones are presented and relationships with allied species discussed.Attention should be called to the fact that Dr. Shufeldt's so-called new species are not "new" from this publication as all were published about six years previously in 'The Ibis' (Oct.1916, pp.623-635), although no reference is made to this paper nor to an earlier one by Nichols and Mowbray in which it seems likely that some of the same forn:s are described.This fact was clearly set forth in 'The Auk' (1917, p. 98) and there is no' excuse for an author to deliberately ignore an earlier paper based on material similar to his own.--W.S. Recent Papers by Bangs and Penard. 2 A new form of Edolius E. forficatus potior (p.25) is described in a recent issue of the 'Proceedings' of the New England Zoological Club, from Anjonan, one of the Comoro Islands, northwest of Madagascar, and a new name Leptotila ful•ive,tris a•tgelica (p.29).is proposed for Sennett's Dove, type from Brownsville, Texas.The name brachyptera proving to be a synonym of fuIvi•,entris.Mr. Penard, alone, describes Heteroglaucis phil{ppinae (p.27) a new Hummingbird from Surinam.--W.S. Recent Papers by Oberhol•er.a--Dr.Oberholser has several nomen~ clatural notes in recent issues of the 'Proceedings' of the Biological Society of Washington.He calls attention to the fact that Illiger proposed Crypturus as a substitute for Tinamus just as he did Dysporus for Sula, a fact that the reviewer brought before the A. O. U. Committee, as affecting Dysporus many years ago, but he was voted down.No name being avail-