490 Recently published Ornitholocjical Works. 



politan Wader : its distribution, though wide, is chiefly con- 

 fined to the Pacific side of the globe. On the other hand, 

 the Turnstone {Strepsilas interpres) is found on the sea-shores 

 nearly all over the world. Rhea darwini (see p. 20) is not 

 restricted to Eastern Patagonia and Argentina, but is now 

 known to extend over the Andes into Northern Chili. More- 

 over it is almost — if not quite — generically different from Rhea 

 americana, whilst R. macrorhyncha is little more than a sub- 

 species of the latter and is only found in N.E. Brazil, so that 

 Rhea should not be described as "limited to the Chilian 

 Subregion^^ (as is done at p. Ill), but Pterocnemis (i. e. 

 Rhea darwini) may be quite correctly thus spoken of. 

 "Parus rosea" (p. 184) (i.e. Acredula rosea), the British 

 form of Acredula caudata, is by no means exclusively con- 

 fined to these islands, but is also found in the Netherlands, 

 the west of Grermany, and part of France. It is also, we 

 believe, doubtful whether Sterna virgata is restricted to 

 Kerguelen and the Crozets, but Mr. Beddard could not have 

 known that when he wrote. 



106. Butler on the Birds of Indiana. 



[Bibliography of Indiana Ornithology. By A. W. Butler. Proc. Indiana 

 Ac. Sci. 1893, p. 108 ; and Notes on Indiana Birds, ibid. p. 116.] 



An extract from the ' Proceedings of the Indiana Academy 

 of Science,^ which has reached us, contains two papers on the 

 ornithology of that State by Mr. A. W. Butler. We find a 

 bibliography of Indiana ornithology, containing the titles of 

 all previous authorities on the Birds of Indiana, and a set of 

 notes on Indiana Birds, which is stated to be supplementary 

 to a paper on the same subject published in the * Transactions 

 of the Indiana Horticultural Society ' in 1890. Amongst 

 the species now recorded is a single example of the rare Den- 

 droeca kirtlandi — the first obtained in this State. 



107. Carr on the Cry of Nyctibius jamaicensis. 



[The " Poor-me-one " {Nyctibius jamaicensis, Gni.). By A. B. Carr. 

 Trinidad Field Nat. Club, ii. p. 137, 1894.] 



A mysterious nocturnal cry, resembling the words "poor- 



