Recently published Ornithological Works. 195 



The Grey-chested Paradise-bird is, it will be remembered, 

 the magnificent species discovered by Mr. A. Goldie in the 

 D'Entrecasteaux Islands, and first figured in this Journal 

 for 1883, pi. viii. 



43. Lawrence on Birds from Yucatan. 



[Description of a new Species of Bird of the Genus Engyptila, with 

 Notes on two Yucatan Birds. By George N. Lawrence. Ann. N. Y. 

 Acad. Sci. iv. p. 271.] 



Mr. Lawrence describes a new Pigeon, from a specimen 

 obtained by Mr. G. F. Gaumer in Yucatan, as Engyptila 

 vinaceifulva, and states that it " does not resemble any other 

 member of the genus." Mr. Lawrence takes this opportunity 

 to vindicate the claims of his Leptoptila fulviventris. from the 

 same country, to rank as a good sj^ecies : Mr. Salvin (P; Z. S. 

 1883, p. 434) could not distinguish it from Leptoptila albi- 

 frons. Mr. Lawrence also gives further details concerning 

 his Choitura gaumeri, from three additional specimens received 

 from Mr. Gaumer. 



44. Murdoch on the Birds of Point Barrow. 



[Report of the Expedition to Point BaiTow, Alaska. By Lieut. P. H. 

 Ray, U.S. Army. Birds by John Murdoch, A.M., Sergeant Signal Corps, 

 U.S. Army, pp. 104-128 and 200. 4to. Washington : 1885.] 



This report contains details of exceptional interest re- 

 specting the birds observed at the most north-western 

 American Station, situated on the Arctic Sea in 71° 23' lat. 

 N., and 156° 40' long. W. It is an Eskimo settlement, 

 discovered during the voyage of H.M.S. ' Blossom ' in 1826, 

 visited by Capts. Dease and Simpson of the Hudson's Bay 

 Company^s service, who determined the coast-line from the 

 mouth of the Mackenzie River to Bering Sea, and was also 

 the winter-quarters of H.M.S. ' Plover^ in 1852-1854; but, 

 with the exception of a note by the late Dr. Adams (P. Z. S. 

 1859, p. 130), little was known o£ its fauna. Nearly all the 

 birds and eggs collected by the American Expedition during 

 their stay, from the autumn of 1881 to that of 1883, were 

 obtained within a circle of fifteen miles from the station, in 



