Recently published Ornithological Works. 355 



and Terns were visited, and the Blue-throat [Cyanecula 

 leucocyanea) was found breeding, besides other interesting 

 species. 



74. Marshall on Changes in the German Avifauna. 



[Deutschlands Vogelwelt im Wechsel der Zeiten. Vortrag, gebalten in 

 der Jahresversammlung des deutsclien Vereias zum Scbiitze der Voo-elwelt 

 am 5 Juni 1886 zu Eisleben von Dr. William Marshall. 8vo. Hamburo- : 



1887.] 



This is an address of 48 pages on the changes wrought by 

 time in the avifauna of Germany, which was delivered last 

 year at the Anniversary Meeting of the German Union for 

 the Protection of Birds, held at Eisleben. Its leading idea 

 appears to be to sliow that, so far from the Ornis remaining 

 always the same, there is in this, as in other terrestrial 

 matters, a slow but constant change going on. 



75. Meyer a?id Helm on the Saxon Ornithological Stations. 

 [Erste Jabresberichte (1885) der ornithologiscben Beobachtungstationen 



im konigreich Sacbsen bearbeitet von Dr. A. B. Meyer und von Dr. F. 

 Helm. 8vo. Dresden: 1886.] 



The Report on the work of the Ornithological Stations of 

 the Kingdom of Saxony for 1885 consists of a pamphlet of 

 82 pages, with an accompanying map. The stations at which 

 observations were made were 35 in number, and the observers 

 43. After a list of the stations and a short account of their 

 positions and other peculiarities, follows a general essay upon 

 the physical features of the whole Kingdom of Saxony and 

 its four divisions of Bautzen, Dresden, Leipsic, and Zwickau. 

 The special part which succeeds contains notes upon 180 

 species systematically arranged according to Homeyer^s List 

 (Ornis, i. p. 168) of German Birds. 



76. Kidgway on a new Oyster catcher. 



[Description of a recently new Oystercatcber (Hcematopus galapa- 

 gensis) from the Galapagos Islands. By Robert Ridgway. Proc. U.S. 

 Nat. Mus. 1886, p. 325.] 



IVTr. Ridgway's Hamatopus galapagensis is closely related 



