330 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



31. Buller on rare Birds of New Zealand. 



[An Exhibition of New and Interesting Forms of New-Zealand Birds, 

 • with Remarks thereon. By Sir Walter L. Bidler. Trans, and Proc. 

 New-Zealand Inst, xxiii. p. 36, 1891.] 



Sir Walter Buller has adopted the excellent plan of ex- 

 liibiting at the Meetings of the Wellington Philosophical 

 Society specimens of rare and remarkable birds of the avi- 

 fauna of New Zealand, on which he is our leading authority, 

 and of reading uotes on their peculiarities, thus keeping our 

 knowledge of the biids of New Zealand up to date. In the 

 present communication on this subject we have notes on 

 Miro traversi, Sphenoeacus fulvus, Lams nov(e-hollandi(e, Ocy- 

 dromus earlii, (Estrelata mollis, (E. affinis, and other rare 

 species. Piiffinus zealandicus, Sandager, is stated to be the 

 same as P. bulleri, Salvin. A thirteenth species of New- 

 Zealand Penguin has been discovered^ but not yet identified. 



3.2. Buller on a new Albatross. 



[On the Wandering Albatross ; with an Exhibition of Specimens, and 

 the Determination of a new Species (Diomedea regia). By Sir Walter 

 L. Bnller. Trans, and Proc. New-Zealand Inst, xxiii. p. 230, 1891.] 



Sir Walter Buller has come to a conclusion that the belief 

 he has long entertained that two large Albatrosses of the 

 New-Zealand seas have been confounded under the name 

 D. exulans is undoubtedly correct. He uoav proposes to call 

 the one distinguishable by its larger size and white head 

 and neck D. regia. Both species breed in the Auckland 

 Islands, but in separate spots, and not quite at the same 

 season. Sixteen specimens of the new species " of both 

 sexes and of all ages " have been examined. 



33. Bund on the Birds of Worcestershire. 



[A List of the Birds of Worcestershire and the adjoining Counties. 

 By J. W. Willis Bund, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. 8vo. Worcester: 1891. 

 Pp. 53.] 



As in many other cases, the boundaries of Worcestershire 

 by no means coincide with the areas of distribution of the 

 birds of that countv. Mr. Willis Bund has therefore in- 



