204 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



Alexander, — for the investigation of the Fauna of the Islands 

 of South-eastern Alaska, and to have been very successfully 

 carried out. The Expedition obtained 532 birds and 33 sets 

 of eggs, besides other objects, all of which have been 

 presented by Miss Alexander to the "Museum of Vertebrate 

 Zoology/' The exact localities visited are fully described 

 by Messrs. Stephens and Dixon and are shown on a map 

 of the Sitkan district of Alaska. The birds collected are 

 carefully described by Mr. Grinnell, the Editor of 'The 

 Condor/ — a very competent authority on the Avifauna of 

 the Western States, — and copious field-notes are furnished 

 from the note-books of the Naturalists of the Expedition. 



Mr. Grinnell refers the 532 bird-skins to 99 species, 

 amongst which he describes the following as new : — Lagopus 

 a/exandra, L. dixoni, Bateo borealis alascensis, Picoides 

 americu a us fa mi pectus, Loxia curvirostra sitkensis, and Plancs- 

 ticus migratorius caurinus. The nomenclature and arrange- 

 ment of the ' Check-list ' are followed. 



14. La Touche on the Birds in the Shanghai Museum. 



[The Collection of Birds in the Shanghai Museum. By J. D. D. 

 La Touche. North China Branch R. Asiatic Society, xi. p. 69 (1909).] 



The difficulty of keeping up a collection of birds in a 

 tropical climate is very obvious, but that it may be overcome 

 by well-applied energy we may see from Mr. La Touche's 

 report on the Shanghai Museum, of which Institution he has 

 had charge for two years. He found it in a sad state from 

 want of care, but has already renovated it to a great extent, 

 and evidently intends to persevere in his good work. There 

 is a mounted collection of Birds, now brought into good 

 order, and containing 571 specimens of 359 species. The 

 skin-collection contains 1120 specimens of 330 species. 

 The total number of Chinese species represented at Shanghai 

 is about 430. Among the mountain-birds of the province 

 of Fohkien are examples of such rarities as Drymochares 

 sinensis, Proparus guttaticollis, and Allotrius pallidus. 

 There are also specimens of such little-known birds as 



