526 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



the climate, geography, geology, zoology, botauy, and other 

 general features of Fuegia are lightly depicted, Capt. Craw- 

 shay proceeds at once to his main subject — the birds, to 

 which he had resolved to pay special attention. He does 

 not claim to have iuserted in his account of them absolutely 

 all the species that have been registered as met with in 

 Tierra del Fucgo, but gives us some good notes on the 

 79 species of which he has himself obtained specimens or 

 has identified without doubt in life. Needless to say, there 

 are no novelties among them. They are all well-known 

 South-American species that are met with in Patagonia on 

 the east or in Chili on the west, or, still more frequently, 

 are found in both of these countries. The nearest Avifauna 

 to that of Fuegia which has been recently worked up is that 

 of Argentina, of which Sclater and Hudson's * Argentine 

 Ornithology ' gives us a modern account. The greater 

 number of Fuegian species are likewise met with in Argen- 

 tina, and the work above quoted is constantly referred to 

 by Capt. Crawshay. 



The rarest bird in Capt, Crawshay's List is, without 

 doubt, the beautiful little Shore-Plover, Pluvianellus socia- 

 bilis, of wdiich an excellent figure is given. All Keulemans^s 

 21 plates are, in fact, very good, and are a great ornament 

 to the work. There are besides more than 20 views of the 

 characteristic scenery of Tierra del Fuego, and, we are 

 pleased to add, a map of the island, without which no work 

 on the zoology of a special country should be deemed 

 complete. 



We copy Capt. Crawshay's field-notes on the rare Pluvia- 

 nellus sociabilis : — " This Plover is not a common bird. In 

 six months I saw five pairs, at various times, in various 

 places. Once I remarked a pair high up on the shingle in 

 San Sebastian Bay, in close proximity to a freshwater lagoon 

 inland. In all other cases I found these birds frequenting 

 inland lagoons, with bare shores, where the water is pink 

 with the minute Crustacea on which they feed. At Black- 

 necked Swan Lagoon, when chasing young Geese on horse- 

 back in February, I came across a pair with one young bird. 



