55.2 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



Islands, Kamchatka, and the Kurilc Islands to Japan, and 

 the return voyage by Honolulu. Mr. Clark has already 

 described the novelties of bird-life met with during the 

 voyage (see Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxxii. p. 467, and 'Ibis/ 

 1907, p. 641), and the present paper gives an account of 

 the expedition and its results. 



Mr. Clark's list contains the names of about 190 species, 

 amongst which are those of many rare marine birds from 

 the North Pacific coasts, especially Alcidae, while some 

 interesting observations were made on their habits. But no 

 list is given of the specimens actually obtained, and in many 

 instances the species are only noted as seen. Such is the 

 case with the great Sea-Eagle Haliaetus pelagicus, which 

 is believed to have been seen near Unalaska, and the Great 

 Black Woodpecker (Picus martins), a single specimen of 

 which was observed near Korsakoff, Sakhalin. 



The question of the American subspecies of Lagopus 

 lagopus is discussed at some length. 



56. Chapman's Camps and Cruises of an Ornithologist. 



[Camps and Cruisns of an Ornithologist. By Frank M. Chapman. 

 With 250 photographs from Nature by the Author. 1 Vol. 8vo. 

 432 pp. New York.] 



Mr. Chapman is, in onr opinion, a very fortunate man. 

 To have gone on so many " cruises " and to have made so 

 many " camps " does not fall to the lot of all his ornitho- 

 logical brethren, and we are quite sure that, although there 

 may have been some little mishaps in his various expeditions, 

 he is well pleased with their general results, of which he now 

 gives us a most interesting account. 



As many of our readers may be aware, Mr. Chapman is 

 the Curator of Ornithology in the "American Museum of 

 Natural History" in New York. For the last seven years 

 he has devoted his time, during the nesting-season, to the 

 collecting of specimens and to making field-studies and photo- 

 graphs of certain birds on which a series of what is called 

 " Habitat-groups " for the Museum may be based. In a 

 previous notice of one of Mr. Chapman's papers (see ' Ibis/ 



