756 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



consist of six widely separated groups, the most northerly 

 being " The Snares/' about 65 miles south of Stewart Island. 

 Next to The Snares come the Auckland Islands, with two 

 larger islands (Auckland Island and Adam's Island) and 

 several smaller. Beyond them, about 140 miles to the south- 

 east, lies Campbell Island, and 400 miles E.N.E. from the 

 latter are the Antipodes Islands, containing one larger 

 island and seven smaller. The fifth group, the " Bounty 

 Islands/' lie about ninety miles north of the " Antipodes." 

 The five groups above mentioned all stand upon the com- 

 paratively shallow oceanic plateau which surrounds New 

 Zealand ; but the sixth and last, Macquarie Island, with its 

 satellites, is outside this plateau, and about 570 miles S.W. 

 of Stewart Island. 



During the expedition to the Subantarctic Islands, of 

 which this volume gives us an account, it appears to have been 

 one of the rules that " neither birds nor their eggs were to 

 be taken." The report on this part of the subject is, there- 

 fore, necessarily rather meagre, being confined to an enumera- 

 tion of the species already recorded from the islands, together 

 with notes on some of them which attracted the author's 

 special attention. 



The species mentioned are some 45 in number, mostly 

 Petrels and other sea-birds, there being only 12 Passeres in 

 the List. There are some useful figures introduced in the 

 text, and, amongst others, illustrations of the nests and young 

 of the two large Albatrosses, Diumedea exulans and D. regia. 

 The former was found breeding on the Auckland Islands, 

 including the western end of Adam's Island, the eastern end 

 of that island being occupied by D. regia. 



A sharp look-out was kept along the shores of the Auckland 

 Islands for the scarce Southern Merganser (Mergus australis), 

 but it was not met with. 



106. The ' Zoological Record' of 1908. 



[Zoological Record. Vol. xlv. ]908. Aves, by R. Rowdier Sbarpe, 

 LL.D. London : Harrison and Sons. Price 6s. December, 1909.] 



The ' Zoological Record' of 1908, being the forty-fifth 



