Ogilvie-grant on Recently Described American Gallin[ae]

x9o2-I•8, of which 5 are described as nexv and three others previously described are reinstated.O.a. arenœcola Henshaw is treated as a synonym of O. a. leucolcema Coues, the habitat and characters of which were misinterpreted by Mr. Henshaw, whose ruling in the case has heretofore been followed.The subspecies ]3ragicola, •iraudi, merrz'lll, sgrt'•ala, rubea, adusta, and palllda stand practically as heretofore.True alj3eslrt's is restricted (in the breeding season) to northeastern North America, from Newfoundland northward, the Old World form of this group standing as fulva (Gmelin).O.a. leucolc•ma of Henshaw and Dwight (not of Coues) is separated into an Alaskan form arclt'cola (subsp.nov.) and hoyl[ Bishop, the latter occupying the Mackenzie Valley region.O.a. enlhymia (subsp.nov.) fills in the small gap between the breeding ranges of ]3ralicola, hoyl[ and leucolcema (Saskatchewan and Assiniboia south to northern North Dakota).O. a. •'nsulart's of Townsend and occidenlalis of McCall are rehabilitated, and the new forins aclœa, ammoj3hila and leucanst•3l[la occupy, respectively, small areas of the coast region of southern California and northern Lower California, the Mobave Desert and Owens Valley, and the region about Yuma, Arizona.The paper is illustrated by six photographic illustrations sho•ving different types of environment, and by four maps showing (•) the range of the genus, (2) the breeding areas of the American forins, and (3 and 4) the breeding areas of the Old World forms.These areas are necessarily in part hypothetical, especially for the Old World forms, and the number and relations of the forms can hardly be said to be as yet reduced to a certainty.Mr. Oberholser's reviexv, however, is an important contribution to a most difficult subject, and will doubtless stand as the ' last word' for some time to come, although, in the nature of the case, his results must be held as more or less tentative.The 'identification of our Horned Larks is of course rendered more difficult through the increased number of forms, and only an Ogocoris expert can hope to identify isolated specimens, especially when we find that three forms--alI3esgris, •oygi and ]3tallcola --are recorded from Long Island, New York, and that one of thein, ]3raft'cola, is liable to turn up as far west as central Arizona.--j. A. A. Ogilvie-Grant on Recently Described American Gallin•e.--Inan article in the April number of • The Ibis' Mr. Ogilvie-Grant gives his opinion, l ex caghedra, concerning certain North American rasorial birds recently

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