Recently published Ornithological Works, 689 



129. Salter on Cardiganshire Birds. 



[List of tlie Birds of Aberystwyth and Xeighbourhood. By J. H. 

 Salter. Svo. Pp. 19. Aberystwyth, 1900.] 



Local lists of Welsh l)irds by competent field-naturalists 

 are few and far between, so that Mr. Salter's contribution is 

 very welcome, for the district of Cardiganshire in question 

 has been little noticed by the ornithologist. The Notes on 

 the 206 species recorded are brief, but they are to the purpose 

 and all that can be desired. 



130. Sharpe on the Birds of Christmas Island. 



[A Monograph of Christmas Island (Indian Ocean). Physical Features 

 and Geology by Charles W. Andrews. With Descriptions of the Fauna 

 and Flora by numerous Contributors. (Birds by Pi. Bowdler Sharpe, 

 LL.D., kc.)." 8vo. London, 1900.] 



INIr. Andrews's researches have doubled the number of the 

 known birds of Christmas Island, as ]\Ir. Lister's list (P. Z. S. 

 1888, p. 512) only gave the names of 14 species, and 29 are 

 now recorded. But the additions are all of species of 

 occasional or erratic occurrence and mostly of wide distri- 

 bution, and the resident land-birds of this curious islet remain 

 7 in number, all peculiar. It is a pity that the distribution 

 of the occasional visitors is not more fully stated in the 

 monograph, in order to give us some better idea of the 

 origin of the bird-life of Christmas Island. 



131. Stone on Birds from Alaska. 



[Report on the Birds and Mammals obtained by the Mcllhenny Expe- 

 dition to Pt. Barrow, Alaska. By Witmer Stone. Proc. Acad. Nat 

 Sci. Philad. 1900, p. 4.] 



Mr. Stone writes on the '' splendid collection of birds and 

 mammals'^ obtained by Mr. E. A. Mcllhenny during his 

 sojourn at Point Barrow, Alaska, in 1897-98. The series of 

 birds comprises 1408 specimens, representing 69 species, of 

 which 60 are from Point Barrow. Of these 13 are additional 

 to the previous list of Murdoch *, and one [Endromias mori- 

 nellus) is new to the North-American avifauna. Various 



* See Ibis, l^^'io, p. 195, 



