456 Recently jniblished Ornithological Works. 



XL VII. — Notices of Recent Ornithological Publications. 



[Continued from p, 360.] 



90. ' The Auk.' 



I' The Auk; a Quarterly Journal of Ornitliology. Vol. IV. No. 2, 

 April, No. 3, July, 1887.] 



In the April part IVIr. Cory describes Ramphocinclus sanctce- 

 lucice, from St. Lucia, and Blacicus martinicensis, from Mar- 

 tinique ; and liis " List of the Birds of the West Indies " 

 has now reached to the ColumbEe, Gallinse, and some of the 

 Liraicolie. In the July part he describes as new Lamprornis 

 hendersoni, from Old Providence Island, and Vireosylvia canes- 

 cens,Icterns lawrencii, Minius inagnirostris, Engyptila neoxena, 

 and Dendroica flavida, all from St. Andrew's Island, in the 

 Caribbean Sea ; also, in a later paper, Euethia grandior from 

 the former ; and a list of the species obtained on these two 

 islands during the winter of 188G-87 is given. Papers by 

 Mr. F. W. Langdon on the mountain-districts of Eastern Ten- 

 nessee, and Mr. G. B. Sennett on the neighbouring Western 

 North -Carolina Mountains, have an interesting and confir- 

 matory bearing upon Mr. W. Brewster^s previous observa- 

 tions in that, ornithologically, little-known country. Dr. 

 Stejneger contributes a supplementary note on the genus 

 Acanthis, wherein he states that specimens from Austria 

 prove to be identical Avith typical British A. cabaret, of 

 which A. rnfescens (Vieillot) is a true synonym. Mr. W. 

 Brewster distinguishes Symphemia semipalmata inornata, 

 Phaleenoptilus jiiittalli nitidus, and Vireo noveboracensis maij- 

 nardi as new subspecies. A paper by Mr. F. C. Browne, 

 reproducing his original notes on some Glossy Ibises obtained 

 in New England in 1850, elicits from Mr. J. H. Sage a copy 

 of the announcement published in the Middletown Conn. 

 ' Sentinel and Witness ' of May 21st, 1850, by a Dr. Barratt, 

 who considers it " highly probable " that these " Black Egyp- 

 tian Ibises .... may have been driven to the south by the 

 late storms, after crossing Behring's Straits — having left the 

 valley of the Nile in March, as we suppose" (p. 253). Mr. 



