360 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



Dr. Stejneger shows that there is no good evidence for 

 placing this Auk in the American list. The supposed 

 American specimens prove on examination to be S. ayitiquus. 



88. Stejneger on Birds from the Liu Kin Islands. 



[On a Collection of Birds made by Mr. jM. Namiye in the Lin Kiu 

 Islands, Japan, with Descriptions of new Species. By Leonhard Stejneger. 

 Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 1886, p. 634.] 



Dr. Stejneger's paper is based on some specimens of birds 

 from the Loo Choo, or, as he prefers to call them, the Liu Kiu 

 Islands, contained in a collection received by the U.S. National 

 Museum from the Educational Museum of Tokio, Japan, and 

 on another collection from the same group sent to Dr. Stej- 

 neger for examination by Mr. M. Namiye of the same estab- 

 lishment. The specimens are referred to 14 species, whereof 

 5 are new — namely Treron permagna, Hypsipetes pryeri, Ico- 

 turus namiyei, Chelidon naniiyei, and Pericrocotns tegimce. 

 Icoturus, according to Dr. Stejneger, is a new genus of 

 Timeliidse which should include also Sylvia komadori of the 

 ' Fauna Japonica.^ Dr. Stejneger also gives the new name 

 Pericrocotns japonicus to P. cinereus, ex Japonia, auctt. 



89. Wells and Lawrence on the Birds of Grenada, W.I. 



[A Catalogue of t]ie Birds of Grenada, West Indies, with Observations 

 thereon. By John Grant Wells, of Grenada (Edited by George N. 

 Lawrence.) Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 1886, p. 609.] 



Mr. Wells has on different occasions transmitted to Mr. 

 Lawrence, through the Smithsonian Listitution, specimens 

 of the birds of Grenada for identification, in order to prepare 

 a catalogue of the apecies found in that island. In the 

 present paper he enumerates 92 species thus determined^ and 

 appends full and interesting notes on their habits. Mr. Wells 

 has thus added 38 species to the avifauna of the island, as 

 previously ascertained by Mr. Ober. It now seems certain 

 that the only Certhiola found in Grenada is the black C. 

 atrata, C. saccharina being only met with in the small islands 

 on the north coast (Isle de llhonde and Carriacou) . 



