68G Recently published Ornithological Works. 



of the birds of every part of Australia, and we are expecting 

 the publication of two works on this subject. Mr. North now 

 describes the nests and eggs of the Drop-marked Bowser-bird 

 [Chlamydodera guttata) and of five other species of which the 

 eggs were not previously known. It is stated that figures of 

 all these eggs will be given in the second edition of ' The 

 Descriptive Catalogue of the Nests and Eggs of Australian 

 Birds ' now in the press. 



123. Oberholser on Birds from the Santa Barbara Islands. 



[Notes oil some Birds from Santa Barbara Islands, California, By 

 Han-y C. Oberholser. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. x.xii. p. 229.] 



This is a complete list, with various critical notes, of the 

 26 species of birds obtained in the summer of 1892 by 

 Mr. C. P. Streator, during an expedition to the Santa Barbara 

 Islands, off the coast of Califormia. The new "forms '^ have 

 been already described, but it would have been better to 

 have added references to the descriptions, which is not always 

 done. Most of the peculiar "forms'^ are treated as only 

 subspecifically diffei'ent, but Aphelocoma insularis is pro- 

 nounced to be quite distinct from " both of its mainland 

 relatives.^^ A few general remarks on the avifauna as a whole 

 would have made this paper much more interesting. 



124. Oberholser on Abbotts Collections in Central Asia. 



[Notes on Birds collected by Doctor W. L. Abbott in Central Asia. 

 By Harry C. Oberliolser. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 205.] 



Mr. Oberholser catalogues the collection of birds made by 

 the energetic American traveller Dr. W. L. Abbott in Kash- 

 mir and Ladak in 1895 and 1897 and presented to the U.S. 

 National Museum. It contains 142 specimens, which are 

 referred to 62 species. Mr. Oberholser proposes to separate 

 a larger form of Totanus calidris, of which 4 specimens were 

 obtained in Ladak, as Totanus totanus eurhinus, but we doubt 

 much whether a subspecies ovight to be based on so small a 

 number of individuals. He likewise wishes to alter the 

 name Saxicola montana Gould to «S. oreophila, because Koch 



