92 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



A third recent addition to our knowledge of the Hawaiian 

 avifauna has been made by the naturalists of the ' Challenger ' 

 Expedition, which visited Owhyhee in August 1875, and during 

 their short stay obtained examples of thirteen species of 

 birds*. Most of these were already well known; but one of 

 them [Anas wyvilliana) proved to be new to science, and a 

 second an example of the little-known Buteo solitarius of 

 Peale, which, through some strange misconception, was re- 

 ferred by Cassin to the genus Pandion. 



Intercalating these additions into the list, we find that the 

 Hawaiian avifauna, according to our present state of infor- 

 mation, may be held to embrace about forty-four species, 

 whereof the following twenty-three are peculiar to the 

 Hawaiian group, namely : — 



a. Passeres. 



Chasiempis sandvicensis. Drepanis flava. 



Phseornis obsciira. Hemiguathus olivaceus. 



Mohoa nobilis. obsciirus. 



braccata. lucidus. 



apicalis. Loxops coccinea. 



Chsetoptila angustipliima. Loxioides bailleni. 

 Drepanis pacifica. Psittirostra psittacea. 

 coccinea. Corvus hawaiensis. 



sanguinea. 



b. ACCIPITRES. 



Buteo solitarius. 



c. Ansebes. 

 Bernicla sandvicensis. Anas wyvilliana. 



d. FULICARIJE. 



Fulica alai. Porzana obscura. 



Gallinula sandvicensis. 



VIII. — Notices of recent Ornithological Publications. 



1. ' Bulletin' of the Nuttall Ornithological Club. 



[Vol. iii. no. 4, October 1878. Cambridge, Mass.] 

 Our American contemporary continues to prosper, we are 

 * See P. Z, S. 1878, p. 346. 



