Recently published Omit ho logic at Works. 189 



the species of birds^ 37 in number, examples of which were 

 collected by Mr. Adrianof. This list, although containing 

 nothing very remarkable, forms an addition to our knowledge 

 of the avifauna of that almost unexplored country. 



31. 'The Auk.' 



['The Auk,' a Quarterly Journal of Ornithology. Vol. III. No. 1. 

 January 18S6.] 



Nearly half the present Part is devoted to an important 

 Vi^swne of the Birds of the West Indies by Mr. C. B, Cory, so 

 well known for his labours on the ornithology of the Antilles. 

 Mr. Edgar A. Mearns sends notes of his observations in 

 Ariz(ma on the Zone-tailed Hawk (^Buteo ahbreviatus) and 

 the Mexican Black Hawk {Urubitinga anthracina) ; Mr. 

 Henshaw concludes his list of Birds observed in New 

 Mexico ; and Mr. W. E. D. Scott contributes a fifth paper on 

 tiie breeding-habits of some Arizona Birds, so that the south- 

 western section of North America is receiving its fair share of 

 attention. From tlie first instalment of an interesting paper 

 by Mr. Evermaun, on the Birds of Ventura County, Call- 

 forniaj we learn that not only is the Barn-Owl [Strix flam- 

 meus americanus) gregarious in winter to the extent of con- 

 sorting in flocks of upwards of fifty, but that it also nests in 

 the holes of the barrancas in such close proximity that eleven 

 nests were dug into, involving some time and labour, in a 

 single day. Mr. William Brewster commences an account 

 of his experiences in the western portion of North Carolina, 

 a mountain-region which, with the adjacent portions of 

 Georgia and South Carolina, may be said to have formed a 

 terra incognita to the ornithologist, although not unvisited 

 by the tourist and sportsman. Two new subspecies are dis- 

 tinguished — Junco hyemalis carolinensis and Vireo solitarius 

 alticola. 



Among the General Notes, a communication by Mr. W. 

 A. Jeffries will be read with interest owing to its bearing 

 upon the question of migration, which is now receiving so 

 much attention. Mr. Jeffries states that at 2 p.m. on the 

 8th of last May, when two days and a few hours outward- 



