Recently published Ornithological Works. 375 



XXVII. — Notices of recent Ornithological Publications. 



(Continued from p. 198.) 



35. Streets on the Natural History of the Hawaiian and 

 Fanning Islands and Lower California. 



[Contributions to the Natural History of the Hawaiian and Fanning 

 Islands and Lower California. By Thomas H. Streets, M.D. Bull, U.S. 

 Nat. Mus. No. 7.] 



The collections which form the subject of this paper were 

 made during a surveying cruise in the North Pacific by the 

 U.S. S. 'Portsmouth.' The most interesting portion of the 

 part relating to the Birds is that which treats of birds of 

 the Fanning Islands, a small group situated to the southward 

 of the Sandwich Islands, and of which, ornithologically speak- 

 ing, little was previously known. It was here Dr. Streets 

 obtained Coriphilus kuhli*, the locality of which was previously 

 undetermined ; and here, too, he obtained the Gadwall recently 

 described as Chaulelasmus couesif. A Petrel obtained on 

 Christmas Island also appears to be new, and is here called 

 Puffinus nativitatis. The other species mentioned are mostly 

 from Lower California and the Sandwich Islands, and, though 

 of interest, do not call for any special comment on our part. 



36. Prjevalsky's Expedition to Lob-nor. 



[Reise des Russischen Generalstabs-Obersten N. B, Przewalsky von 

 Kuldscba iiber den Thian-Schan an den Lob-Nor und Altyn-Tag, 1876 

 und 1877. Uebersetzung des an die k. russ. geographische Gesellschaft 

 in St. Petersbourg gerichteten offiziellen Berichtes von Przewalsky, D. D. 

 Kuldscha 18. August, 1877. Petermann's Mittheilungen, Ergauzungsheft 

 No. 35.] 



In this memoir will be found a preliminary account of the 

 distinguished Russian traveller Prjevalsky's last expedition 

 to the southern confines of the great Gobi desert in 1876-77. 

 There are many zoological remarks. A list is given of the 

 birds (48) found wintering on the Tarim, which runs into 

 Lob-nor. Two new species, Podoces tarimensis and Rhopo- 

 philus deserti, are mentioned, but not described. An ac- 



* Cf. Sclater, P. Z. S. 1876, p. 421. 

 + cy. abis,' 1877, p. 242. 



