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explains why our familiar Arctic Tern (Sterna macrura) passes the southern 

 summer (our northern winter) amid these ever-icy seas." 



The systematic list numbers 17 species, with extended comment on their 

 distribution and habits. The only Tern previously recorded from this 

 region is the well-known South American Sterna hirundinacca. But " when 

 the 'Scotia' sailed from the South Orkneys she left the Sterna hirundinacca 

 behind her. Other Terns were met with, often in considerable numbers, 

 and specimens were fortunately obtained in widely scattered portions of 

 the Weddell Sea. These, strange to say, I found to belong to the most 

 northern representative of their genus, namely, to Sterna macrura, the 

 Arctic Tern! Thus this familiar bird to British ornithologists would seem 

 to have the most extensive latitudinal range to be found among vertebrate 



animals, since it is now known to occur from 82° N. to 74° 1' S They 



were often observed in considerable numbers, and are logged for March 5th, 

 1904, as being seen in thousands in 72° 31' S.; while from the 9th to the 

 13th of the same month, many were seen when off Coats Land, in 74° 1' S., 



20° 0' W That it is only a winter visitor does not admit of doubt, 



for the bird certainly does not breed there; nor is any other Tern, so far as 

 we know, a native of the Antarctic Continent." As is now well-known, 

 somewhat reversed conditions occur in the case of the Wilson's Petrel 

 (Oceanites oceanicus), which breeds in the Antarctic islands and wanders 

 north in the northern summer to the North Atlantic. — J. A. A. 



Goeldi's 'Album de Aves Amazonicas.' — Fasciculus III (pll. xxiv-xlviii) 

 brings to a close this noteworthy supplement 1 of 48 colored plates, illus- 

 trating Dr. Goeldi's well-known 'Aves do Brazil,' published 1894-1900 

 (2 vols. 12mo). About 100 species ate very successfully illustrated, by 

 the tricolor process, for the most part with excellent results. They thus 

 form a most desirable and valuable supplement to the text, from the point 

 of view of not only the general reader, but the student of South American 

 ornithology. We tender the author our sincere congratulations on the 

 results thus so happily achieved. 



Dr. Goeldi, after twenty years' residence in the American tropics, has 

 retired from the active directorship of the great museum which so appro- 

 priately bears his name, it being mainly his own creation, returning to 

 Switzerland, his native land, still in vigorous health, with, we trust, many 

 years of scientific activity before him. — J. A. A. 



1 Museu Goeldi | (Museu Paraense) | de Historia Natural e Ethnographia | — | 

 Album de Aves Amazonicas | organisado pelo Professor | Dr. Emilio A. Goeldi. | 

 Director do mesmo Museu i — | Publicao iniciade por ordem de S. Ex cia O S'"' 

 D r Jose" Paesde Carvalho, | ex-go vernador | e continuada sob o Governo de S. Ex (il1 

 O S nr D r Augusto Montenegro | — • | Desenhos do S nr . Ernesto Lohse, Desenlnsta- 

 Lithographo do Museu Goeldi | — | Supplemento illustrativo a' obra "Aves do 

 Brazil" | pelo Dr. Emilio A. Goeldi | Livraria classica de Alves & Cie, Rio de Janeiro, 

 | 1894-1900 (2 volumes) | 1900-1906,— 4to, fasc. I, 1900, pll. 1-12; fasc. 2, 1902, 

 pll. 13-24; fasc. 3, 1906, pll. 24-4S. With title-page, contents, indexes, ami direc- 

 tions for binding. Also excerpts (8 pp. 4to) from reviews and personal acknowl- 

 edgments, etc. 



