Pia Auk 
310 Recent Literature. me 
place for this species was discovered, although a strip of low bare ground 
seen on Liv Island may possibly afford it a suitable nesting place. 
‘“The last specimens were seen near the Coburg Islands between the 
11th and 14th of August. After that they vanished completely, and no 
specimen was seen during the rest of the journey; and there was thus 
no sign of their inhabiting any locality in the region between Dickson 
Sound and Cape Flora.” 
Section IV is entitled ‘The Last Two Summers in the Ice. Northeast 
of Franz Josef Land, 1895, north of Spitsbergen, 1896.’ In this list 
(pp. 44-53) 19 species are enumerated, several being here for the first time 
noted, as @gzalitis htaticula, Xema sabint, Fratercula arctica glactalis, 
etc. The Snowflake again figures as the only land bird, and Ross’s Gull 
is again met with, having been observed on July 18, 19, and 22 and Au- 
gust 4, 9, and 11, —in all seven specimens being seen, in N. Lat. 84° 247! 
to 84° 46’, and all were apparently old birds. 
The whole number of species recorded in the four lists is 33, of which 
some were seen only once or twice, and a few are not positively identi- 
fied. Five only are recorded in all of the four lists, these being the 
Snowflake, the Kittiwake, the Glaucous and Ivory Gulls, and Mandt’s 
Guillemot. Respecting many of the species a great deal of very interest- 
ing information is recorded, and besides this the memoir is a most im- 
portant contribution to the ornithology of the high North. The two 
plates for the first time illustrate the first plumage of the little known 
Ross’s Gull. —J. A. A. 
Stone on the MclIlhenny Collection.!— This is a technical report on 
the fine collection of 1408 birds of 69 species, secured by Mr. E. A. 
Mcllhenny at Point Barrow, Alaska, from August, 1897, to August, 1898, 
the publication of Mr. MclIlhenny’s field-notes being deferred. 
Mr. Stone states ‘‘ The material obtained is the finest yet brought from 
the Arctic regions, and the series are so full that the molt and variations 
of plumage in many of the birds, that have not previously been under- 
stood are beautifully illustrated.” It is therefore fortunate that this 
valuable collection has been studied by an ornithologist so well fitted for 
the task as Mr. Stone. Only one form, As7o accipitrinus mcilhenny?, 
proved to be separable but of almost all the others detailed descriptions 
of changing plumages and extended critical comments on the manner 
of molting are given, the remarks concerning the Eiders being of special 
interest and value, Six species observed by Murdoch at Point Barrow 
were not obtained, and thirteen species were added to Mr. Murdoch’s 
list. —F. M. C. 
‘Report on the Birds and Mammals obtaited by the McIlhenny Expedition 
to Pt. Barrow, Alaska. By Witmer Stone. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1900, 
pp: 4-49 (birds, pp. 4-33). March 24, 1900. 
