500 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



class, Mr. Seebohm gives us a mass of information as to 

 many important details of structure met with in the various 

 orders and suborders which cannot fail to be very useful to 

 ornithologists. 



121. Shufeldt on Isolated Species of Birds. 



[Some of the " Outliers " among Birds. By R. W. Shufeldt. Popular 

 Science Monthly, xlvi. p. 760. New York, 1895.] 



This is an interesting magazine-article, in which the author 

 treats of such species as Opisthocomus cristatus, Psophia 

 leucoptera, Eurypijga helias, Rhinochetusjubatus, Dicholophus 

 cristatus, Gypogeranus serpentarius, Scops umbretta, Pala- 

 medea cornuta, Heteralocha acutirostris, Menura superba, and 

 others; those aboA^e specified being illustrated by cuts, many 

 of them taken — with due acknowledgment — from Professor 

 Newton's ' Dictionary of Birds." 



122. Smith [Rev. A. C.) on the late John Legg. 



[Memoir of Mr. John Legg, of Market Lavington, Wilts : an advanced 

 Ornithologist of the 18th Century. By the Rev. A. C. Smith. Wiltshire 

 Archseol. & Nat. Hist. Mag. xxviii. p. 5.] 



The subject of this memoir was a little-known writer on 

 ornithology between 1779 and 1788, and his views on the 

 migration of birds appear to have been considerably in 

 advance of his time. 



123. Stone on the Birds of the Delaware Valley. 



[On the Birds of Eastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey, with Intro- 

 ductory Chapters on Geographical Distribution and Migration, prepared 

 under the direction of the Delaware Valley Ornithological Club. By 

 Witmer Stone. Pp. 185. 8vo. Philadelphia, 1894.] 



The great city of Philadelphia lies in the centre of the 

 Delaware valley, and it is fit that the numerous ornithologists 

 of that important district should have a handbook of their 

 own, containing a summary of the distribution and occurrence 

 of the birds that are found in the country. Mr. Witmer 



