600 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



the newly discovered species inserted. The plates of Dr. 

 Buller's well-known ' History of the Birds of New Zealand ' 

 (now a book of rare value) have been reduced by photo- 

 lithography for the present work; and woodcuts illustrate 

 the generic characters. 



93. Elliott on the Birds of the Alaska Seal-Islands. 



[A Monograph of the Seal-Islands of Alaska. By Ileury W. Elliott. 

 Reprinted, with additious, from the Report ou the Fishery Industries of 

 the Tenth Census. Washington: 1882. 1 vol. 4to, 176 pp.] 



The new edition of this most interesting Report (originally 

 issued in 1873, but, we believe, never published, and hardly 

 to be obtained by purchase^) contains a reprint of Dr. 

 Coues's catalogue of the birds of the Pribylow group, with 

 the revised observations of Mr. Elliott. 



The Thick-billed Guillemot {Lomvia arra) inhabits St. 

 George's Island in immense multitudes. " When the females 

 begin to sit over their eggs towards the end of June, at 

 regular hours in the morning and in the evening the males 

 go flying around and around the island in great files and 

 platoons, always circling against or quartering on the wind. 



" They make in this way, during a sustained period of hours 

 at a time, a dark girdle of birds more than a quarter of a 

 mile broad and thirty miles long, flying so thickly together 

 that the wings of one fairly strike those of the others as they 

 go. They whirl in swift revolving endless succession during 

 the periods just mentioned, and form a dress parade of orni- 

 thological power which [Mr. Elliott] challenges the world to 

 rival." 



94. Forbes on the Tubinares. 



[The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. 'Challenger.'— Part XI. Report 

 on the Anatomy of the Tubinares. By W. A. Forbes, B.A., F.Z.S. 

 London: 1882.] 



Mr. Forbes's elaborate memoir upon the anatomy of the 

 Petrels will be studied with pleasure by every ornithologist. 



* Cf. Ibis, 1874, p. 468. 



