Recently published Ornithological Works. 337 



Representatioes in Main Isluruh of 

 Yezo Species. Japan. 



Picus minor. Picas kisuki. 



Dryocopus martins. " Dryocopus richardsi. 

 Gecinus canus. Gecinus awokera. 



Garrulus brandti. Garrulus japouicus. 



Acredula caudata. Acredula trivirgata. 



It will thus be evident that, in accordance with what 

 Capt. Blakiston has shown in a previous memoir {cf. ' Ibis/ 

 1883, p. 562), Yezo belongs to the fauna of Siberia, and has 

 species more akin to those of Northern Europe, while the 

 main islands of Japan appertain rather to the same area of 

 distribution as the adjacent portion of China. Such forms as 

 Tchitrea princeps, Pericrocotus cinereus, and Megaluruspryeri 

 are manifestly southern elements in the Japanese av.fauna, 

 and are never found in Yezo, 



43. Blasius's Oi'iiithological Contributions. 



[Oruithologische Mittheilungen. Von R, Blasius. . Sitzuiigsb. d. Verein 

 f. Naturwiss. zu Braunschweig, Dec. 3, 1883.] 



Dr. R. Blasius^s notes refer to Serimis hortulanus, Ciconia 

 nigra, and Picus major. 



44. Cooke and Widmann on Bird-migration in the Missis- 

 sippi Valley. 



[Bird-Migration in the Mississippi Valley. By \V. W. Cooke and Otto 

 Widmann. Read before the Ridgway Ornithological Club, Chicago, 

 Illinois, U. S. A., 1883.] 



This paper, reprinted from the ' American Field,^ contains 

 an account of the field-notes on the arrivals and departures 

 of the migrant species made by IVIr. Widmann at St. Louis, 

 on the Mississippi, and by M.\\ Cooke at Jefferson, Wis., 

 during the spring of 1883. The combined notes on each 

 species are added afterwards in systematic order. 



45. Cory on the Birds of San Domingo. 



^ [The Birds of Haiti and San Domingo. By Charles B. Coiy, F.L.S. 

 Estes and Lauriat, Boston, 1884. Part I,, 5 pp., G plates, quarto.] 



We have received with great pleasure the first number of 



