Recently published Ornithological Works. 243 



XXIV. — Notices of Recent Ornithological Publications. 



[Contiaued from p. 119.] 



32. ' The Auk/ 



['The Auk,' a Quarterly Journal of Ornithology. Vol. III. No. 4, 

 October 1886; Vol. IV. Xo. 1, January 1887.] 



In the October Part there are, as might be expected, 

 several interesting articles on American ornithology; Mr. 

 Henshaw describes a new Jay, Aphelocoma insularis, from 

 Santa Cruz, one of the Santa Barbara Islands, off California; 

 and Mr. Cory continues his list of Birds of the West Indies. 

 His supplementary paper, descriptive of 13 new species from 

 Grand Cayman, has already received special notice in our 

 last issue, [antea, p. 124). Dr. R. W. Shufeldt's reproduction 

 of the photograph of an old portrait of Audubon by himself, 

 with remarks upon some of his earlier drawings, will excite 

 interest among those to whom that explorer's works rank as 

 classics. Mr. Lucas has a paper on the affinities of Chcetura, 

 which has elicited a reply in the January number from 

 Dr. Shufeldt, who has also his hands full with a discussion 

 respecting the classification of the Macrochires with Dr. 

 Stejneger. The observations of Mr. Lucas on the Procel- 

 lariidse observed on a voyage round Cape Horn and up the 

 west coast of South America may be compared with the 

 remarks on sea-birds by Mr. S. Swinburne, noticed in our 

 present issue {infra, p. 255). Mr. Cory describes (p. 6) 

 Vireo caymanensis, sp. n., from Grand Cayman, and suggests 

 the name of Zenaida richardsoni for a Dove from Little 

 Cayman, in case it should prove distinct from Z. spadicea ; 

 he also continues (p. 37) his list of the Birds of the West 

 Indies. Mr. G. B. Sennett describes (p. 28), as new, Parus 

 atricristatus castaneifrons and Parus bicolor texensis, both 

 from Southern Texas. Dr. Stejneger^s farther remarks on 

 the genus Acanthis will be read with interest by students of 

 the Palsearctic avifauna, and in their hands we must leave this 

 group of Linnets. It is satisfactory to learn that, on the 

 whole, the Reports of the Committee were favourable, 

 especially that on the Migration of Birds, on the occa- 



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