138 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



31 . Salvadori on the Occurrence of Cypselus affinis in Italy. 



[n Cypseliis affinis in Liguria. Nota di T. Salvadori. Ann. Mus. Civ. 

 Stor. Nat. Geneva, ser. 2, ix. p. 549.] 



This note records the occurrence at Genoa^ on May 14th 

 last, of a specimen of the widely-diffused Swift Cypselus 

 affinis, which is thus added to the European avifauna. Its 

 previously known localities nearest to Europe were Palestine 

 (c/. Tristram, Faun. & Fl. Pal. p. 83) and Tunis (Koenig, 

 J. f. O. 1888, p. 138). Count Salvadori gives an exhaustive 

 list of references, and an accurate description of this new 

 European bird. 



22. Sandager on the Birds of the Mokohinou Islands. 



[Observations on the Mokohinou Islands and the Birds which inhabit 

 them. By F. Sandager. Trans. N. Z. Inst. 1889, p. 286.] 



The IVEokohinou group consists of a number of islands of 

 volcanic formation lying about twelve miles north-west of 

 Great Barrier Island, N.Z., and covered with a certain 

 amount of scrubby vegetation. Numerous birds arrive there 

 for breeding-purposes and as occasional visitors. JVIr. 

 Sandager records the occurrence of 12 land-birds, only 2 

 of which appear to be resident, and of 22 waders and marine 

 species. Amongst the latter are 12 Petrels, of which one is 

 described as new {Puffinus zealandicus) . A Penguin {Eu- 

 dyptula undina) breeds there, but " not in great numbers.^' 



23. Schalow on the Avifauna of Brandenburg . 



[Neue Beitrage zur Vogelfauna von Brandenburg. Von Herman 

 Schalow. J. f. O. 1890, p. 1.] 



Herr Schalow kindly sends us a separate copy of his 

 " New Contributions to the Avifauna of Brandenburg," which 

 we have perused with much interest, the writer being, as we 

 all know, a first-rate authority on the subject. In 1886, on 

 the occasion of the 59th assemblage of the '' Deutsche 

 Naturforscher und Aerzte '' in Berlin, there was prepared and 

 issued a memoir on the Vertebrata of the province of Bran- 

 denburg. Of this memoir the part relating to the Birds 



