562 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



104. Tringoides hypoleucus. 



Tringa hypoleucos , Linn. S. N. i. 1766^ p. 250. 



Actitis hypoleucus, Hartl. Orn. W.Afr. p. 235. 



Tringoides hypoleucus, B. O. U. List B. BirdSj 1883^ p. 173. 



a, Egga : legs yellowish green. 



-f- 105. Sterna caspia. 



Sterna caspia, Pall. Nov. Comna. Petrop. xiv. 1769, p. 582 ; 

 Hartl. Oru. W.Afr. p. 253. 



a. (^ , Bonny river. 



XLI. — Notices of recent Ornithological Publications. 



(Continued from p. 384.) 



102. Blakiston on the Geographical Distribution of the Birds 

 of Japan. 



[" Zoological Indications of ancient connections of the Japan Islands 

 with the Continent." Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, 1883, 

 p. 120.] 



A very interesting paper on the difference between the 

 fauna o£ the north island of Japan and that of the southern 

 island, showing that the former is essentially Siberian and 

 the latter Chinese. 



103. Blakiston's Oi'nithological Notes. Nos. I.-III. 



[Ornithological Notes. — I. Birds observed on the South-east Coast of 

 Tezo in May. By T. W. Blakiston. The Chrysanthemum, vol. ii. 

 pp. 424, 471, 521. II. Autumn collecting at Sapporo, Yezo. Ibid. 

 vol. iii. p. 26. III. Messrs. Jouy and Smith's late collections. Ibid. 

 vol. iii. p. 76.] 



These papers, published in the new Japanese periodical 

 called ' Chrysanthemum/ are specially valuable for their 

 information respecting the birds which breed on the north 

 island of Japan and those which only pass through on migra- 

 tion. The second series of Notes is an important paper on 

 the birds of the north island of Japan. In the third, amongst 

 many interesting notes on the birds collected on the main 

 island of Japan, Mr. Blakiston clearly distinguishes between 



