Recently published Ornithological Works. 445 



Honey-eater [Myznmela annabell(R) named after Mrs. Forbes 

 worthily occupies the coloured titlepage, and an uncoloured 

 figure of Geocichla machiki (p, 337) is also given. 



121. Harvie-Brown on Kumlien's Gull. 



[Exhibition of and Remarks upon a specimen of Lams Immlieni, 

 Brewster, from Cumberland Inlet, North America, (fee. Pr. R. Phys. Soc. 

 Edin. 1885. (Separate copy.)] 



This very interesting specimen, which has been kindly pre- 

 sented by Mr. Ilarvie Brown to Saunders, was shot in August 

 1884 by Mr. John Henderson, attached to the steam- whaler 

 ' Maude,^ of Dundee, other examples being observed. The 

 species was first recorded from Cumberland Inlet by Mr. 

 Kumlien, of the Howgate Polar Expedition, as the North- 

 Pacific L. glaucescens, a statement which (accompanied by 

 others still more improbable had hardly had time to raise 

 Sunders's scepticism when the point was cleared up by his 

 friend Mr. Brewster, who pronounced the species from Cum- 

 berland Inlet to be quite distinct, as it undoubtedly is. The 

 bird is only of the size of the Iceland Gull, but it has pale-grey 

 markings on the primaries — a distinction worthy of notice, 

 because the species may not improbably occur on our northern 

 coasts in severe winters, having already been obtained as far 

 south as New York State. On the Pacific coast a Gull, 

 similar in wing-pattern, but of the size of the Glaucous Gull, 

 has been obtained, and named L. nelsoni, Heushaw. Mr. 

 Henderson is to be congratulated on the acquisition of this 

 rarity ; would that there were more observers like him on 

 our whalers ! 



122. Meyer on new Birds in the Dresden Museum. 



[Ueber neue und ungeniigend bekannte Vogel im konigl. zoologischen 

 Museum zu Dresden. Von A. B. Meyer. Zeitschr, f. d. ges. Orn. 1884, 

 pp. 193-222, taf. vii.-ix.] 



After referring to his previous paper [see 'Ibis,^ 1884, 

 p. 458], Dr. Meyer enumerates 37 species, and proceeds to 

 describe the following as new : — Sauropatis australasice (V.), 



