Recently published Ornithological Works. 117 



7. Boutourlin on some Birds of Eastern Livonia. 



[Zametki o Nickotorykh Ptitzakh bo3totchuoi Liflandii. S, A. Bm- 

 tourlina. Iz Drevnika Zoologitcheskavootdieleniya Imperatorskavo 

 Obschestvaliubitelci estestvoznaniya, t. iii. no. 3. Moskva, 1902.] 



These notes refer to the country round Marienburg 

 in the district of Valk, where it seems that the brown- 

 backed form of the Marsh-Titmouse (Parus palustris) is 

 the common species, and not Parus borealis as stated by 

 Prof. Menzbier. The Starling of those parts is Sturnus 

 sophice Bianchi, which, Mr. Boutourlin says, is always dis- 

 tinguishable from Sturnus vulgaris. It is also stated that 

 Mergus serrator breeds commonly in East-central Livonia, 

 in lat. 57 26' N. and long. 44° 48' E. H. E. D. 



8. Brewster on North- American Birds. 



[On the Occurrence in Massachusetts of certain rare or interesting 

 Birds. By W. Brewster. Auk, 1901, pp. 135-137. 

 An Ornithological Mystery. By W. Brewster. Tom. cit. pp. 321-328. 

 An undescribed Form of the Black Duck (Anas obscura). By W. 



Brewster. Op. cit. 1902, pp. 183-188.] 



In the first of these articles the subjects are Mareca 

 penelope, Nettion crecca, Anser albifrons gambeli, Rail us 

 crepitans, Hcematopus palliatus, and Strix pratincola ; in 

 the second is contained an account of the voice of an 

 unknown Rail heard at Cambridge, U.S.A.; in the third a 

 new subspecies, Anas obscura rubripes, is proposed. 



9. Coburn's Ornithological Expedition to North Iceland. 



[ Hrief Notes on an Expedition to the North of Iceland in 1899. By 

 F. Coburn. Zool. 1901, pp. 401-419.] 



Mr. Coburn gives us a most interesting account of his 

 explorations in the north of Iceland, while the information 

 that he provides shews that new discoveries are still to be 

 made even in countries that have apparently been well 

 worked as regards their ornithology. His observations 

 extend to some sixty-six species of birds, among which 

 may be mentioned a Redwing which has been described 

 as a new form (Turdus coburni) by Dr. Sharpc (Hull. 



