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2000 feet altitude, and La Chumata mine, at 4500 feet altitude. The list 

 (67 species) is based on a collection made by Mr. W. W. Brown, Jr., mainly 

 during the month of May, 1905, and hence at the height of the breeding 

 season. Many nests and eggs were taken. A new subspecies is Psaltri- 

 parus plumbeus cecaumenorum, and there are technical notes on a few other 

 species. — J. A. A. 



Lonnberg on the Birds of South Georgia. — The present memoir ' 

 is based on collections made on the island of South Georgia by Mr. Erik 

 Sorling for the Swedish Natural History Museum in Stockholm. Sorling, 

 accompanying Captain C. A. Larsen on a whaling voyage to the antarctic 

 seas, was able to spend the period from the middle of November, 1904, to 

 the end of September, 1905, on South Georgia. He had thus nearly a 

 full year on the island and secured important collections and valuable 

 observations, especially on the seals, whales, birds, and fishes. The first 

 important report on the birds of South Georgia was based on the material 

 obtained by the German Antarctic Expedition of 1882-1883, papers on 

 which were published by Pagenstecker and von den Steinen, respectively 

 in 1885 and 1890, by whom 22 species were recognized as occurring on 

 the island, and 19 as breeding. The Swedish Antarctic Expedition of 

 1902 added, as recorded by Lonnberg, one more to the total number, and 

 also one to the list of breeding birds; Sorling added still another, making 

 21 known to breed, and raising the total number thus far recorded, includ- 

 ing occasional stragglers, to 29. In the present memoir all are treated 

 at greater or less length; of 25 species Sorling obtained specimens, often 

 in series, representing both young and adult, and frequently including 

 skeletons as well as skins. Sorling's field notes, given in abstract or at 

 length, are of special interest, while the author has made his report on the 

 birds a summary of the present knowledge of the ornithology of South 

 Georgia. There is a colored plate of a chick of Chionis, color sketches 

 from life of the head and bill of Nettion georgeium and of Phalacrocorax 

 atriceps, and reproductions of photographs of the King Penguin, Great 

 Skua, and a rookery of Pygocelis papua. The only land bird recorded is 

 the Antarctic Pipit (Anthus antarcticus) . — J. A. A. 



Harvie-Brown's 'A Fauna of the Tay Basin. ' 2 — This is the tenth volume 

 of 'The Vertebrate Fauna of Scotland' series, edited, and in part written 

 by J. A. Harvie-Brown and the late Thomas E. Buckley. Following 



1 Contributions to the Fauna of South Georgia. I. Taxonomic and Biological 

 Notes on Vertebrates. By Einar Lonnberg. Sv. Vet. Akademiens Handlinger, 

 Bd. XL, No. 5, 1906, pp. 1-102, pll. i-xii, and 7 text figures. Birds, pp. 50-90, pll. 

 i, ii, colored, pi. xii, half-tone. 



2 A Fauna | of the | Tay Basin | & Strathmore | By J. A. Harvie-Brown | Edin- 

 burgh, David Douglas, 1906 — Small 4to, pp. i-lxxxvi + 1-377, 21 photogravure 

 plates, 8 text cuts, and 6 maps. Price 30 shillings. 



