512 Recently puJdished Ornithological IForks. 



around that island. He also collected seventeen specimens, 

 which form the basis of this paper and which are now iu the 

 American Museum. 



Mr. Murphy finds that Phalacrocorax georgianus is, on the 

 whole, more closely allied to P. athiventir than to P. atriceps^ 

 with which it has hitherto been associated as a subspecies, 

 and he gives us a table of measurements and ot other 

 characters of the three forms to prove his case. 



In the second half of the paper field-notes and descriptions 

 of the nesting-habits and eggs are given, and these are 

 illustrated with a number of excellent photographs taken at 

 the breeding-place — a small precipitous islet lying near the 

 south shore of the Bay of Isles in South Georgia, where he 

 found this Cormorant nesting in considerable numbers in 

 December. 



Noble on a new Dove. 



[A new Dove from St. Croix, Danish West Indies. By G. K. Noble. 

 Proc. New England Zool. CI. v. 1915, pp. 101-102.] 



Mr. Noble distinguishes the Zenaida Dove of St. Croix, 

 and presumedly that of the other islands of the Lesser 

 Antilles, under the name of Zenaida zenaida lucida as 

 distinct from Z. z. zenaida of the Greater Aniilles and the 

 Bahamas. 



Richardson's Life of T<^getmeier. 



[A veteran Naturalist, being the life and work of W. B. Tegetmeier. 

 By E. W. Richardson, with an Introduction by the late Sir Walter 

 Gilbey, Bart. Pp. xxxiv+232 ; many portraits and illustr. Loudon 

 (Witherby), 1916. 8vo.] 



Many of us must remember the subject of this biography, 

 a little old man with keen aud sharply-cut features who 

 frequently attended the dinners of the B. O. C. in the earlier 

 days up to 1905, and who generally had something inter- 

 esting to communicate. 



Born in 1816, aud living a busy and active life till 

 within a year or two of his death iu 1912 at the aj^e 

 of ninety-six, he was a spectator of many changes and had 

 many interesting experiences. Brought up for a medical 



