Recently published OrnithologicaJ Works. 499 



XXXVII. — Notices of recent Ornithological Publications. 

 [Continued from p. 347.] 



85. Borchgrevink's 'First on the Antarctic Continent.'' 



[First on tlie Antarctic Continent, being an account of the British 

 Antarctic Expedition 1898-1900. By C. E. Borchgrevink, F.R.G.S. 

 London, 1901 : George Newnes. 1 vol. 8vo. 333 pp. Price 10s. Qd. net.] 



We have already remarked on Mr. Borchgrevink^s paper in 

 the 'Geographical Journal^ (see above, p. 154), which con- 

 tained the first account of his Antarctic Expedition, We 

 have now the full narrative before us, in which there are 

 many further allusions to birds, a whole chapter being 

 devoted to the Penguins. It is evident that Penguin's flesh 

 and eggs supply in ' Antarctis' the fresh and welcome diet 

 that bear's flesh gives to explorers in ' Arctis.' Eudyptes 

 adeliae is the Penguin of Victoria Land, and breeds there in 

 enormous abundance. In half an honr 435 eggs were col- 

 lected by members of the Expedition. Other birds nesting 

 there were the Antarctic Skua and two Petrels — Oceanites 

 oceanictis and Pagodroma nivea. But we shall know more 

 about the birds when the collection (now at the British 

 IVluseum) is worked out. Meanwhile Mr. Borchgreviuk's 

 field-notes are of much interci^t. But he (or his printer) 

 should have taken the trouble to spell the scientific names 

 more correctly. 



86. Chapman on the Genus Sturnella. 



[A Study of the Genus Sturnella. By Frank M. Chapman. Bull. 

 Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. xiii. pp. 297-320, 1900.] 



Mr. Chapman has made a careful study of the Meadow- 

 Starlings of the genus Sturnella, which range over North 

 and Central America down to Colombia and Guiana. In 

 the course of his researches he has examined 734 specimens. 

 Like other forms that occupy a wide area, Sturnella is subject 

 to considerable variations in colour and size, which have 

 induced the author to recognise six local subspecies, besides 

 the typical form of Sturnella magna. The vexed question of 

 the relationship of the western Sttcrnella neglecta to S. magna 



