1 1 Recently 'published Ornithological Works. 



record of occurrences of the Arctic Tern (Sterna macrura) 

 in the Hawaiian Islands helps to fill in the links in the 

 chain of distribution of this species. H. S. 



4. ' The Avicultural Magazine. 1 



[The Avicultural Magazine ; heing the Journal of the Avicultural 

 Society for the Study of Foreign and British Birds. Vol. viii. Nos. 11 

 and ]2, 1902.] 



These two parts of the 'Avicultural Magazine ' contain 

 a large number of papers of considerable interest, for the 

 most part concerned with but one kind of bird; but Mr. J. 

 L. Bonhote's " Field Notes on some Bahama Birds " is a 

 notable exception. He gives a good idea of the nature of 

 the country and of the habits of the various species. 



5. Benham on an Egg of the Moa. 



[Note on an Entire Egg of a Moa, now in the Museum of the Univer- 

 sity of Otago. By W. B. Benham, D.Sc, M.A., F.Z.S. Trans. & Proc. 

 N.Z. Inst, xxxiv. pp. 149-151, pi. vii., 1902.] 



The author describes the " absolutely uninjured egg" of a 

 Moa, which was brought up by a " dredge-hand " working 

 on the Barnscleugh gold-dredge in the river Molyneux, 

 Otago, and is now in the Otago Museum. A second egg 

 was obtained by the same man about two months later. 

 Its length was 7f inches, its breadth 5£ inches, and its 

 equatorial circumference 16J inches. The egg is figured on 

 a reduced scale. 



6. Berlepsch on new South- American Birds. 



[Mitteilungen iiber neue und seltene sudanierikanische Vogel. Von 

 Graf Hans von Berlepsch. Verh. d. V. Intern. Zool. Congr. z. Berlin . 

 Jena, 1902.] 



Graf v. Berlepsch describes a new Tinamou, Nothoprocta 

 fulvescens, from S.E. Peru (Garlepp), and makes remarks 

 on other rare birds from S. America (Chlorochysa, Penelope, 

 JEgialitis, &c). 



