Becently published Ornithological Works. 333 



trict round that city in March and April 1891 for the American 

 Museum of Natural History. He found birds abundant both 

 in species and individuals. Of the 190 odd species observed, 

 at least 85 were common, but the " demand for birds for 

 millinery purposes " has sadly thinned their ranks. A flock 

 of 200 specimens of Larus frankllni was seen on April 24th. 

 Cardinalis cardinalis canicaudus is described as a new sub- 

 species from S.W. Texas andN.E. Mexico. The species and 

 subspecies added to Beckham's list were upwards of sixty. 



39. Cheeseman on the Birds of the Kermadec Islands. 



[On the Birds of the Kermadec Islands. By T. F. Cheeseman. Trans. 

 and Proc. New-Zealand Inst, xxiii. p. 216, 1801.] 



The Kermadec Islands lie in the Pacific Ocean, some 250 

 miles north-east of New Zealand. In a previous paper on 

 this subject Mr. Cheeseman gave the names of 22 species of 

 birds as found there. He now raises the total to 40. The 

 land-birds of the Kermadecs are, without exception, also found 

 in New Zealand, and the sea-birds are either met with in the 

 New-Zealand seas or " are common on the coasts of Aus- 

 tralia or Polynesia." There are no endemic species, and not 

 more than 12 or 15 permanent residents. It Avould seem, 

 however, that a Megapode {Megapodius sp. inc.) formerly 

 inhabited the crater of the volcano in Sunday Island, one of 

 the group. 



40. Cherrie on new Costa-Rican Birds. 



[Description of new Genera, Species, and Subspecies of Birds from 

 Costa Rica. By George K. Cherrie. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xiv. p. 337.] 



Mr. Cherrie describes, principally from specimens con- 

 tained in a small collection of birds brought by him from 

 Costa Rica, the following new species and subspecies : — Lopho- 

 'triccus squamicristatns minor, L. zeledoni, Pachyrhamphus 

 ornatus, Deconychura typica (a new genus and species of 

 Dendrocolaptidse allied to Sittasomus and Glyphorhynchus) , 

 Vireo superciliaris, Basileuterus salvini (from Guatemala) = 

 B. delattrii, auctt. nee Bp , Grallarializanoi, Pachyrhamphus 



