370 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



of migrants at RockalDill by Mr. Barrington, and of Stock 

 Doves in Wexford by Major Barrett-Hamilton. 



The November number is devoted to a full account of the 

 Dublin Meeting of the British Association. 



37. McGregor on Philippine Birds. 



[Notes ou a CollectioQ of Birds from Siquijor, Philippine Islands. 

 By Richard C. McGregor. Philipp. Journ. of Science, iii. no, 6, Sept. 

 1908.] 



Our American friends continue their excellent work in 

 the Philippines. The establishment of a " Biological 

 Laboratory" and of a '^Journal of Science^' so soon after 

 their arrival ou the scene are feats that may well put other 

 Governments to shame. As regards Birds at least they 

 have an engrossing subject before them. The preparation 

 of an 'Avifauna Philippinensis/ and the correct working 

 out of the numerous representative species in the different 

 islands, will be a task of much labour but of intense 

 interest. 



In the present paper, Mr. McGregor, who is now the 

 leading ornithologist at Manila, gives us an account of a 

 collection from the coral rock of Siquijor, a little island 

 lying close to Negros, and apparently comparatively recently 

 provided with bird-life. Three species, however, have had 

 time to develop into well-marked representatives — namely, 

 Dicceum besti, Loriculus siquijorensis, and lole siquijorensis. 

 Mr. McGregor enumerates 87 species from this island, 

 thus adding 9 to the list given by Worcester and Bourns in 

 1898''^. Among these is Acanthopneuste borealis (Blasius), 

 of which two specimens were obtained. 



38. Mair's ' Mackenzie Basin.' 



[Through the Mackenzie Basin, a Narrative of the Athabasca and 

 Peace Kiver Treaty Expedition of 1899, and Notes on the Birds and 

 Mammals of Northern Canada, by Roderick MacFarlane. 1 vol., 8vo. 

 494 pp. London : Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., 1908.] 



This volume contains in the first place the narrative of an 

 expedition sent into the" Great Mackenzie Basin'' in 1899, 

 * Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xx. p. 564. 



