378 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



Eacli number of the present volume also contains a 

 coloured jilate of the species of the North American Finches 

 and Sparrows, with descriptive articles on their plumages by 

 Mr. Chapman and of their migrations by Mr. W. W. Cooke. 

 Other coloured plates o£ well-known North American birds 

 by Fucrtes, Bruce Horsfall, and Allan Brooks, are found in 

 the portion of the magazine devoted to the activities of the 

 Audubon Societies. 



An interesting annual feature of *^ Bird-Lore' is the 

 Christmas Census. Readers of the magazine are asked to 

 make a list of all birds observed by^them on Christmas-day, 

 and the number of lists sent in from every corner of the 

 States and Canada make a very useful contribution to our 

 knowledge of the distribution of American birds in winter. 



In the November-December number is published the 

 annual reports of the various branches of the Audubon 

 Society, and the income of the central body of the Asso- 

 ciation amounts to nearly j620,000 and the investments to 

 over £70,000. 



finish Naturalist. 



[The Irish Naturalist. Vol. xxiii. nos. 1-12, Jan. to Dec. 1914.] 



There are not very many articles of great ornithological 

 interest in the last volume of the ' Irish Naturalist.' 

 Mr. G. B. Humphreys has recently found a nesting-place of 

 the Roseate Tern, a bird not previously known to nest on 

 the Irish coast. Mr. Humphreys wisely does not mention 

 the exact locality, but he gives an account of what he saw 

 aiul states that he examined from twenty to twenty-five 

 undoubted nests of this rare species. 



Miss Best and Miss Haviland spent a few weeks in the 

 autumn of 1913 watching migration on Rathlin Island, off 

 the coast of Antrim, but were a little disappointed at the 

 results. They obtained, however, an example of a Green- 

 land Redpoll (Acanthis linaria rostrata), which had hitherto 

 only been recorded from Achill and Tearaght Islands off 

 the Irish coasts. 



Mr. F. M. Barrington reports that the Fulmars are again 



