722 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



by the Canadian autliorities, and tliat after the fishermen 

 had taken everything they could reach, they " fired raking 

 shots again and again into the masses of birds upon their 

 nestSj mowing them down like grass, to leave them there 

 dead or dying — a most horrible and pathetic sight." From 

 Mr. Henshaw come records of the first occurrences of 

 the Pectoral Sandpiper {Tringa maculata) and the Grey 

 Plover [Squatarola helvetica) in the Hawaiian Islands, with 

 notes on other rare visitants to that group, Mr. Walter 

 Faxon^s remarks on early editions of Wilson's Ornithology 

 will interest bibliographers ; and the decease of Mr. George 

 Boardman at the ripe age 83 Avill cause a pang to several 

 of our older ornithologists. We would also express our 

 sincere sympathy with Mr. R. Ridgway, of W^ashington, on 

 the loss he has sustained by the death of his promising son, 

 Mr. Audubon Whelock Ridgway. — H. S. 



1 1 8. Berg's Critical Remarks on Chilian Birds. 



[Notas Criticas referentes a las contribuciones al Estudio de las Aves 

 Chilenas de Federico Albert. Por Carlos Berg-. An. Soc. Cientif. 

 Argentina, li. pp. 55-61, 1901.] 



Senor Berg finds great fault, as well he may, with the 

 synonymy and identifications used by Senor Albert in his 

 ' Contribuciones al Estudio de las Aves Chilenas,^ Avhich 

 have been recently published in the Annals of the Uni- 

 versity of Chili, and especially points out grave errors in his 

 treatment of the Caprimulgidse and Ardeidse of that country. 

 But we cannot agree with Senor Berg that everyone ought 

 to call the '' Rosy Spoonbill " ^jaja ajuja, and the Night- 

 Heron Nycticorax nycticorax, for we do not ourselves recog- 

 nise the obligations of the new system of tautonyms. 



119. Berg's Ornithological Notes. 



[Ornitbologisches. Von Karl Berg. Comm. d. Mus. Nac. Buenos 

 Aires, i. pp. 283-287, 1901.] 



The author tells us, among other things, that the English 

 Sparrow was introduced into Buenos Ayres in 1872 with the 



