648 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



Mr. Philip Crowley exliibited two eggs of Paradise-birds 

 which had been obtained on Mount Victoria, British New 

 Guinea. One of these was stated to be undoubtedly an egg 

 of Paradisea raggiana. 



Mr. Howard Saunders read an extract from a letter 

 received from Mr. Heatley Noble, in which the latter de- 

 scribed the breeding of the Scaup Dack {Fuligula marila) 

 in Sutherlandshire. 



LI. — Notices uf recent Ornithological Publications. 

 [Continued from p. 466.] 



87. Andersen on the Birds of the Faeroes. 



[Meddelelser om Faeroernes Fugle med sserligt Hensyn til Nolso. 2den 

 Rsekke. Efter skriftlige Opiysninger fra P. F. Petersen, Nolso. Ved 

 Knud Andersen. Vidensk. Meddel. naturh. Foren. i Kbhvn. 1899, p. 239.] 



This is a supplement to a previous paper on tlie same 

 subject (see Ibis, 1898, p. 614), and contains an account of 

 the birds observed in the Faeroes in 1897 and 1898, Eighty- 

 four species are recorded from Nolso, and a few from the 

 other islands. 



88. Brewster on a new Clapper-Rail. 



[An undescribed Clapper-Rail from Georgia and East Florida. By 

 William Brewster. Proc. New Engl. Zool. Club, i. p. 49 (1899).] 



Mr. Brewster describes Rallus crepitans waynei, of the 

 South Atlantic coast, as a new subspecies of the more 

 northern R. c. typicus. 



89. Chomiahoff on the Nesting o/Terekia cinerea. 



[Ueber das Nisten des Terekwasserlaufers {Tofcmtis terehius Latb.) im 

 Kassimow'scben Distrikt des Pijasaner Gouvernenients. Von M. Cbomi- 

 akoff. Bull. Soc. Imp. d. Nat. Moscou, 1898, p. 191.] 



The Terek Sandpiper, according to some authorities, is an 

 " Arctic species, breeding in the north of Europe and Asia.^^ 

 The author shows that this is not strictly accurate, as Prof. 

 Bogdanoff and other Russian naturalists have ascertained that 



