Recently published Ornithological Wurks. 303 



impossible. On the Rockall bank nineteen species of birds 

 were identified^ all of them marine, except a Dunlin ; while 

 the population of the Rock consisted, at a rough guess^ 

 of 250 Guillemots, 30 Puflfins, 50 immature Kittiwakes, 

 10 Gannets (8 immature), and possibly 1 or 2 Rnzorbills. 

 Numbers of Great Shearwaters {Pujffiaus gravis O^Reilly, 

 formerly better known as P. major Faber) were observed on 

 the Bank in the month of June, as well as many Manx Shear- 

 waters ; but the former species certainly was not breeding 

 there. Its summer habitat is in the Southern hemisphere, 

 but it annually frequents the North Atlantic bjtween May 

 and September (the winter months of the south), and of the 

 thousands taken for bait on the coasts of the Bay of Fundy 

 not one was ever found to show any indication of breeding. 

 The evidence on this point is given at considerable length ; 

 and a list is added of the birds observed on the expedition. 



38. Helms on Birds from East Greenland. 



[Ornitliologiske lagttagelser fra Angmagsalik, Ost-Grtinland, af J. 

 Petersen. Meddelte af O. Helms. Vidensk. Meddel. fra den naturh. 

 Foren. i Kbhvn. 1898, p. 169.] 



The author writes on the birds collected and observations 

 made by Hr. Johan Petersen in the neighbourhood of Ang- 

 magsalik, in East Greenland, during the three years 1895-7. 

 Twenty-seven species are enumerated and commented upon. 

 Eight of them are Passeres. 



39. Hurdis on the Birds of the Bermudas. 



[Rough Notes and Memoranda relating to the Natural History of the 

 Bermudas, by the late John L. Hurdis. Edited by his Daughter, 

 H. J. Hurdis. Svo. London : R. H. Porter, 1897.] 



Miss H. J. Hurdis has edited and published the rough 

 notes and memoranda relating to the Natural History of the 

 Bermudas made by her father, the late John L. Hurdis, 

 Controller of Customs and Navigation Laws in those islands, 

 from 1846 to 1854. Some 300 out of the 408 pages relate 

 to Birds, of which Mr. Hurdis was, as is well known, a most 

 diligent and enthusiastic observer. The volume is dedicated 



