890 Recently ijublifhcd ()r/ii(/to/(>i/ic<i/ llOrks. 



of beginning his lists at the "^^ Mi'ong end/' Mhich is very 

 confusing. 



57. Osgood on Chamsea fasciata. 



\_Cha)ncea fasdata and its Subspecies. Ey NVillVed II. Osgood. Pnif. 

 Biol. Soc. Washington, xiii. p. 41.] 



Tlie Wren-Tits [ChanKea) of California have been divided 

 into two subspecies, C. faaciata txjpiva and C f. henshuwl. 

 Mr. Osgood has discovered that the latter, iVom Southern 

 California, is really the typical form, and he, therefore, 

 proposes to rename the dark northern form (■. f. jj/icea. 



58. Palmer on the Birds of the Pribilof Islands. 



[The Fur-Seals and Fur-Seal Islands of the North Pacitie Ocean. l>y 

 David Starr Jordan. Part .'J, Chap. xvii. The Avifauna, by William 

 Palmer. 4to. Washington, 1899.] 



The author of this interesting report to the Fur-Seal 

 Commission of 1896-97 was on the Pribilof Islands from 

 May 27 to August 11, and seems to have added about 20 

 species to the list of birds observed there by IVIr. H. W, Elliott 

 and others. jVIr. Palmer distinguishes the Turnstone of the 

 area north of Hudson Bay from the ^Mackenzie river eastward, 

 and from the Atlantic watershed to the Falklands as Arenaria 

 morinella, and devotes several pages to the maintenance of 

 his contention. There are some interesting illustrations and 

 diagrams of the development of feathers. Mr. Palmer holds 

 some novel and decidedly bold opinions on the subject of the 

 migration of Pribilof birds. 



59. Pearson on the Islands of Barents Sea. 



['Beyond Petsora Eastward': Two Summer Voyages to Novaya 

 Zemlya and the Islands of Barents Sea. By Henry J. Pearson. \\'ith 

 Appendices on the Botany and Geology. By Col. H. ^^^ Feilden. 4t(). 

 London, 1899.] 



The interesting expeditions made by Mr, Pearson and his 

 companions to the above-mentioned district were described 

 in this Journal for 1896, pp. 199-2.25, and 1898, pp 185-208, 

 though chiefly, of course, as regards the ornithological results. 



