1 76 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



to the Curator of the Sarawak Museum, ]Mr. J. C. Moulton, 

 well worthy of publieation^ and they will no doubt be found 

 useful by students of Malayan ornithology. 



The Auk. 



[Tlie Auk. A quarterly Journal of Ornitbolooy. Vol. xxxi. nos. 1-4. 

 1914.] 



This volume of the 'Auk' opens appropriately with a 

 most eloquent appreciation of our late Editor, Dr. P. L. 

 Sclater, from the pen of one of his oldest surviving friends 

 and contemporaries, Dr. Daniel Giraud Elliot, who is now 

 living in New York and working at the American Museum 

 of Natural History. He describes how he first called on 

 Dr. Sclater and made his acquaintance in 1859, shortly after 

 he had been elected Secretary of the Zoological Society, and 

 how he saw him constantly from then onwards, whenever he 

 had occasion to come to England, The memoir is steeped 

 throughout with veneration and reverence for the great men 

 of the zoological world of the Victorian era, and it is far 

 the most touching tribute to the memory of Dr. Sclater 

 which has yet been published. 



Mr, 11, C. ]\Iurphy, who made a voyage in a New Bedford 

 whaling-brig to South Georgia in 1912-13, brought back 

 some 500 skins of sea-birds from that remote island to enrich 

 the collections of the American Museum in New York and 

 of the Brooklyn Museum as well. It will be remembered 

 that he sent an interesting photograph of a flock of various 

 species of Petrels and Albatrosses to the ' Ibis ' of last 

 April. He now (p. 429) contributes to the pages of the 

 'Auk' a general account of his adventures and observations, 

 illustrated with many photographs of sea-birds*. He also 

 proposes (p. 13) to add another species of Petrel (yEstrelata 

 chionophara, sp. n ) to the three already described from 

 Trinidad Islet in the south tropical Atlantic ; this seems, 

 perhaps, a rather questionable proceeding, as only one 

 example of the new species was obtained, and there can be 



* A somewhat popular account, more fully illustrated, will be found 

 iu the Broolvlvn Museum Quarterly, i. 1914, pp. 83-110. 



