336 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



low trees near the swamps. Some say that it builds in the 

 branches of the gouty Ambatch trees, which do not rise to 

 more than fifteen feet above the water's edge. 



1 have transmitted two specimens of Balaniceps, a male 

 and a female, to the British Museum, both obtained on the 

 shores of the Victoria Nyanza in 1890. (See Dr. Sharpe's 

 List, above, p. 103, also Ibis, 1901, p. 156.) 



XXI. — Notices of recent Ornithological Publications. 

 [Continued from p. 163.] 



40. Andersen on Birds from the Faroe Islands. 



[Sysselmand II. C. Miiller's Ilaandskrevne Optegnelser cm Ffer0ernes 

 Fngle. I. Uddrag ved Knud Andersen. Vidensk. Medd. Kbhvn. 1901, 

 pp. 217-252.] 



An account is given of the field-notes made by the late 

 Sysselman H. C. JVIiiller on birds observed in the Fseroe 

 Islands from 1863 to the time of his death in July 1897. 

 They refer to 123 species, and are arranged in systematic 

 order. 



41. Babson on the Birds of New Jersey, U.S.A. 



[Bulletin of the Bird Club of Princeton University. Vol. i. Xo. 1. 

 September 1901.] 



The first number of the Bulletin of the Bird-Club of 

 Princeton University is appropriately devoted to a list of 

 the birds of the vicinity, which is defined as a circular area 

 of about eight miles radius around the town. The list con- 

 tains the names of 253 species, with short remarks added 

 to each of them. The " permanent residents " in this part 

 of New Jersey are only 31, whereas the summer residents, 

 which come from the south to breed, are 70. We remark 

 that the House- Sparrow is noted as " abundant as ever/' 

 and as having lately taken to driving away the Rough-winged 

 Swallow {Stelgidopteryx serripennis) by seizing on its 

 nesting-places. 



