Recently published Ornithological Works. 145 



Mr. Ruthven Deano's contribution of the unpuhlished letters 

 of William Macgillivray to Audubon deserves attention on 

 this side of the Atlantic. Messrs. Bangs and Bradlee give 

 a list of the birds of Bermuda, and describe three island 

 forms which they consider to be worthy of full specific 

 distinction. As an outlier, Bermuda has been visited by 

 several wanderers from the Old World, and long ago 

 Col. H. W. Feilden recorded the Lapwing there, but now 

 Vanellus vulgaris has travelled still further to the south-west 

 and has been obtained near Nassau, Bahamas. In Mr. A. 

 C. Bent^s first instalment of a paper, with photogravures, 

 on the nesting-habits of the Auatidse in North Dakota, all 

 the species mentioned are on the British list. Mr. Ontram 

 Bangs gives a list of birds obtained in the vicinity of 

 Chiriqui, with several new species which may be left to the 

 recorder of " Aves " in our ' Zoological Record.' A paper by 

 H, Lyman Clark on the Classification of Birds, based on 

 pterylosis, deserves the attention of experts ; and if the 

 demands on our space would permit we might quote his 

 conclusions (p. 380), but an abstract would hardly do them 

 justice. A valuable paper, by Mr. W. A. Bryan, on Hawaiian 

 birds, will interest all those ornithologists who study geo- 

 graphical distribution and. lines of migration. We must 

 not omit to mention that pp. 295-320 contain the Tenth 

 Supplement to the A. O. U. Check-list. — H. S. 



5. Bernacchi on Antarctic Birds. 



[To the South Polar Regions, expedition of 1898-1900. By Louis 

 Bernacchi, F.R.G.S. London : Hurst and Blackett, 1901. Price 12s. net.] 



No one interested in Antarctic Research should fail to read 

 Mr. Bernacchi's narrative of his experiences with Borchgre- 

 vink^s expedition of 1898-1900, which he accompanied as 

 Physicist. The author does not claim to be an ornith- 

 ologist, but there are necessarily constant references to birds 

 throughout his pages, while several excellent photographs 

 of Penguins and Penguin-life are given. His account of 

 the curious ways and habits of the Antarctic Penguin 

 (Pygosceles adelia) is the best and most complete that has 



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