478 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



Orkney; Capt. A. E. St. Vincent Pollard, Border Regt., 

 Royal Military College, Camberley, Surrey ; Harold 

 Schwann, 4 Princes Gardens, S.W., and Lionel E. Taylor, 

 Irene District, Pretoria, Transvaal. 



Mr. John Macoun, M.A., F.R.S.C., Naturalist to the 

 Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa, and Mr. Alfred D. 

 Millar, 298 Smith Street, Durban, Natal, were elected 

 Colonial Members ; and Mr. Harry C. Oberholser, of the 

 Biological Survey, Department of Agriculture, Washington, 

 D.C., was elected a Foreign Member. 



After a vote of thanks to the Council of the Zoological 

 Society of London for the use of their rooms had been 

 unanimously agreed to, the Meeting adjourned. 



XXXI. — Notices of recent Ornithological Publications. 



[Continued from \>. 286. j 

 60. Alpheraky on Pain-arctic Geese. 



[The Geese of Europe and Asia, being the Description of most of the 

 Hid World Species. By Sergius Alphe*raky. With Twenty-four coloured 

 Plates bj I''. W. Frohawk, and Frontispiece by Dr. P. P. Sushkin. 4to. 

 L98pp. London: Rowland Ward, Ltd., 1905. Price £3 3s.] 



This translation of M. Alpheraky's " Gusi Rossii," published 

 in Russia in 1904, will be very acceptable to the many students 

 of Palaearctic birds who are not able to comprehend the 

 language in which the original was issued. 



M. Alpheraky's general arrangement of the Palaearctic 

 Geese does not deviate much from that of Count Salvadori 

 published in the twenty- seventh volume of the l Catalogue 

 of Birds/ But he uses many more generic names and 

 introduces us to several species not generally recognised. 



The series is commenced with the Snow-Geese {Chen), of 

 which two Paltearctic species {Chen nivalis and C. hyper- 

 boreus), differing only in size, are somewhat doubtfully 

 allowed. Then follows the Emperor Goose {Philacte cana- 

 yica), well known in Alaska, which occurs in the extreme 

 east of Northern Asia. The genus Anser comes next ; but 



