740 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



on the Kolyma River in Siberia. The discovery by him of 

 the eggs oiRhodostethia rosea is narrated — though not for the 

 first time — in this part of Mr. Dresser's book, and the true 

 facts are given concerning Numenius tenuirostris and its 

 bi*eediug-range ; while an error of Middendorff's with regard 

 to Tringites rujescens is corrected. 



There is much of interest in the British Birds included in 

 this instalment, and we notice that Mr. Dresser has safe- 

 guarded himself in the matter of the supposed Wood-Sand- 

 piper's eggs from Elgin, which were certainly wrongly 

 identified {supra, p. 730). In the case of the Roseate Tern, 

 however, he is too sceptical, as the eggs were certainly taken 

 on one occasion at least in Norfolk (coll. A. Newton), when 

 the parents were carefully identified. Again he might 

 have extended the breeding-range of the Sandwich Tern on 

 the Scottish mainland to Sutherland, whence the late T. E. 

 Buckley procured a single egg. Perhaps he considers such 

 an exceptional case better omitted. We cannot complain, on 

 the other hand, of his statement that the Common Gull does 

 not nest to the south of the Border- land, though we should 

 have wished him to have stated that the record from St. Abb's 

 Head by Hepburn was undoubtedly erroneous, and that the 

 bird is not found on the East Coast of Scotland in general. 

 But he is decidedly mistaken in doubting whether the 

 Arctic Skua breeds in Caithness — there is, or was a few 

 years ago, at least one fair-sized colony there. 



The plates of this book are excellent, aud, though dark 

 eggs are difficult to photograph successfully, the results are 

 most satisfactory. 



8 1. Eaton on the Birds of New York. 



[New York State Museum. Memoir 12. Birds of New York. By 

 Elon Howard Eaton. Part I. 1 vol., 4to. Albany, 1910.] 



This is the first volume of a new history of the birds of the 

 State of New York, prepared by Mr. E. Howard Eaton, who, 

 we are assured, is an experienced student of the subject. It 

 is accompanied by 42 coloured plates, which, together with 

 500 pages of letterpress, make a somewhat ponderous 



