514 Recently published Ornitholngical Works. 



g'lUa richardsoni from Sta. Lucia^ and L. barbadensis from 

 Barbadoes. Mr. Brewster's paper on the new Petrel jEstre- 

 lata scalaris (we should write (Estrelaia) treats of tlie question 

 of its distinctness from (E.fisheri, Ridgw., and (E. gularis, 

 Peale. 



79. The Bombaij Natural History Society. 



[Journal of tlie Bombay Natural History Society. Edited by E. H. 

 Aitken and R. A. Sterndale. Vol. I. No. 1, January, No. 2, April, 1836.] 



This Society was founded so long ago as 1883, and we are 

 glad to find that it has now developed sufficient vitality to 

 have a mouth-piece. Such a Journal was much wanted in 

 India since the abrupt discontinuance of ' Stray Feather's/ 

 and it is satisfactory to see a goodly list of Members. The 

 Editors are Messrs. E. H. Aitken and R. A. Sterndale, who are 

 also in special charge of the Sections of Mammals and Birds ; 

 and the former contributes an interesting ornithological 

 paper to the first number, " On the Mimicry of Phyllornis 

 jerdoni," besides " Catalogues of the Birds and Eggs in the 

 Society's Collection." No. 2 opens with a friendly criticism 

 by Mr. H. Littledale, of the ' Handbook to the Birds of the 

 Bombay Presidency,^ lately noticed in this Journal (p. 190), 

 by Lieut. H. E. Barnes, who in his turn contributes an 

 article on ^'Birds'-nesting in Rajpootana." We shall look 

 forward to further interesting papers from our confreres and 

 others, for Indian ornithologists should not allow themselves 

 to be forgotten. 



80. Brewster on Bird-Migration. 



[Bird-Migration. By William Brewster. Memoirs of the Nuttall 

 Ornithological Club, No. 1, March, 1886. Cambridge, Mass. 4to.] 



An Introduction informs us that although the Nuttall 

 Ornithological Club merged its quarterly bulletin in the 

 ' Auk,' yet seeing that the latter is already overcrowded and 

 unable to accept long papers, the Club has decided to begin 

 a series of Memoirs, to be issued irregularly, as material 

 ofl;ers. Naturally the President of the Club takes the initia- 

 tive, and commences with a very interesting paper, divided 



