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73. Chapman on Birds from Alaska. 



[List of Birds collected in Alaska by the Andrew J. Stone Expedition 

 of 190] . By Frank M. Chapman. Bull. Amer. Mus. N. H. xvi. pp. 231- 

 •247 (1902).] 



The naturalists of the " Stone " Expedition to Alaska of 

 1901 attended principally to mammals, but obtained 302 

 specimens of birds, which are referred to 68 species by 

 .Mr. Chapman. Most of them are well-known inhabitants 

 of Arctic America, but two are now described as belonging 

 to new subspecies — Lagopus leucurus peninsularis and 

 Cyanocitta stelleri borealis. Some field-notes by Mr. Figgins 

 (Mr. Stone's taxidermist) are added to the list. 



71. Finn on Two Birds from Mauritius. 



[On Specimens of Two Mauritian Birds in the Collection of the Asiatic 

 Society. By F. Finn, B.A., F.Z.S., Deputy Superintendent of the Indian 

 Museum. J. A. S. B. lxxi. pt. ii. pp. 87-91, pis. iv., v. (1902).] 



The author writes on certain specimens of a Moorhen and 

 a Tropic-bird in the Calcutta Museum " from Mauritius," 

 presented many years ago by Mr. Willis Earle, and cata- 

 logued by Blyth as Gallinula chloropus and Phaethon candidus. 

 The Moorhen is referred to G. pyrrhorhoa Newton, but its 

 large bill and other divergences are noticed, while one of the 

 Tropic-birds (referred to Phaethon lepturus) appears to be 

 more like P. americanus of the B. M. Catalogue ; but it may 

 be questioned whether these two supposed species are really 

 separable, or whether there is an error in the locality. 



75. Finsch on Dicajum sollicitans. 



[Ueher Dicceum sollicitans Kartell. Von Dr. O. Finsch. Notes LeyHen 

 Mus. xxiii. pp. 153-155.] 



The Leyden Museum has received from its correspondent 

 1 1 err Max Bartels, in Java, an example of Dicceum sollici- 

 tans of Hartert (Nov. Zool. viii. p. 52), which was based 

 on a single specimen with the sex undetermined. The new 

 example, of which a description is given, is certainly a 

 female, but Hcrr Bartels has also secured a male in similar 

 plumage. This proves that the species belongs to the plain- 



