632 Recently published Ornithological Works. [Ibis, 



Wetmore on the Birds of Culebra Island. 



[The Birds of Culebra Island, Porto Rico. By Alexander Wetmore. 

 Auk, xxxiv. 1917, pp. 51-62.] 



The little island of Culebra, wbicb is only seven miles 

 by five, is about twenty miles east of Cape San Juan, the 

 north-eastern point of Porto Rico. While collecting in 

 the last-named island in 1912 Mr. Wetmore spent about 

 a month in Culebra, and in this paper he gives a list of 

 birds collected and observed, numbering 53 species, nearly 

 all of which are also found in the larger island. Culebra, 

 though subject at times to torrential rains, is dry and arid, 

 and there is no permanent fresh-water supply beyond that 

 derived by storing the rainfall. In consequence the avifauna 

 is much poorer than that of Porto Rico and shows a slight 

 decrease in the number of forms as compared with the 

 neighbouring island of Vieques, the fauna of Avhich had 

 previously been investigated by Mr. Wetmore. 



Wetmore on the New Zealand Cuckoo. 



[A new Cuckoo from New Zealand. By Alexander Wetmore. Proc. 

 Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 30, 1917, pp. 1-2.] 



In a short note Mr. Wetmoi'e proposes to distinguish 

 the form of Urodynamis taitensis (Sparrman) inhabiting 

 New Zealand under the name U. t. pheletes subsp. n., owing 

 to its more buffy and heavily-streaked underparts. The 

 type-locality of U. t. taitensis is Tahiti. 



List of other Ornithological Publications received. 



Glabstonk, Hugh S. Handbook to Lord Lilford's Coloured Figures 



of the Birds of the British Isles. (London, 1917.) 

 Gyldenstoi-pk, Nils. On Birds and Mammals from the Malay 



Peninsula. (Archiv for Zoologi, Baud 10, No. 26. Stockholm, 



1917.) 

 Gyldenstolpe, Nils. Notes on the Heel-pads in certain families of 



Birds. (Archiv fiir Zoologi, Band 11, No. 12. Stockholm, 1917.) 



