466 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



P. Nielsen, from Eyrarbakki, the most interesting being the 

 record of Turclus nierula there in December 1877. Tlie 

 greater part of Heft 1 (pp. 156) is devoted to the first por- 

 tion of V. V. Tschusi and K. v. Dalla-Torre's annual report 

 on the birds of the Austro- Hungarian Empire. 



106. Ridgway on a new Plumed Partridge. 



[Description of a new Plumed Partridge from Sonera. ' Forest and 

 Stream,' xxviii. No. 6, March 8, 1887, p. 106.] 



This species^ named Callipepla elegans bensoni, is based on 

 five specimens obtained by Lieutenant Benson, U.S.A., in 

 Sonora ; and we notice it in order that the record of its ex- 

 istence should not be buried in a newspaper. 



107. The Ridgway Ornithological Club's ' Bulletin.' 



[The Ridgway Ornithological Club of Chicago, Illinois, U. S. A. Bulle- 

 tin, Nos. 1, 2. Chicago : 1887.] 



We have recently received Bulletin No. 1, bearing date so 

 far back as December 1883, consisting of a paper, originally 

 published in the ' American Field/ on '^ Bird Migration in 

 the Mississippi Valley/' by Messrs. Cooke and Widman, which 

 we have already noticed (Ibis, 1884, p. 37) under the authors' 

 names. Bulletin No. 2, dated 1887, is more than twice as 

 thick, and contains '' Notes and Observations on the Orni- 

 thology of Corpus Christi, Texas/' by J. L. Hancock ; two 

 papers by H. E. K. Coale, in one of which he describes Den- 

 droica cestiva morcomi, subsp. n., and Dendroica dugesi, sp. n. ; 

 a " List of Birds Breeding near Mt. Carmel, Illinois," by R. 

 Bidgway ; '' Notes on the Birds of Southern California and 

 South-western Arizona," by G. Frean Morcom (a countryman 

 of our own), with notes by his collector, Mr. F. Stephens; 

 short papers on Amrnodramus beJdingi and Dryohates nuttalli, 

 by B. T. Gault ; and an interesting " Contribution to our 

 knowledge of Albinism/' by the editor, G. L. Toppan, enume- 

 rating 154 species of American birds in which the absence 

 of colouring pigment has been observed. We wish this 

 new serial every success in its now independent career. 



