282 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



the U.S. National Museum, one has heen presented to the 

 Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 

 and another to the American Museum of Natural History, 

 New York. 



" One specimen, sent in exchange to a well-known London 

 dealer iu natural-history material, has found its way to the 

 Museum of Science and Art, Edinburgh, and another has been 

 sent in exchange to the Australian Museum, Sydney, New 

 South Wales. Two skeletons are retained for the reserve- 

 series, U.S. National Museum, and three or four, less com- 

 plete, can still be made up from the bones remaining, while 

 there is besides a large number of individual bones, good, bad, 

 and indifferent, left for study.^^ 



Mr. Lucas concludes his memoir with a study of the in- 

 dividual variation met with in the bones thus obtained, which 

 is exhibited in a series of elaborate tables, and finally with a 

 carefully compiled bibliography of the Great Auk. 



44. Meyer on Pelecanus molinae. 



[Pelecanus molince, Gray. Von A. B. Meyer. J. f. O. 1890, p. 165.] 



The Dresden Museum has received aa example of Pele- 

 canus molince from near Callao {Dr. Stubel), and Dr. Meyer 

 takes the opportunity of vindicating its distinctness from 

 P. fuscus. There is, however, as Dr. Meyer says, still much 

 to be learned about the different plumages of this Pelican, 

 one phase of which has been named P. barhieri by Oustalet 

 (c/. Salviu, Ibis, 1879, p. 98). 



45. North on the Nests and Eggs of Australian Birds. 



[Australian Museum, Sydney. ^ (Catalogue No. 12.) Descriptive Cata- 

 logue of the Nests and Eggs of Birds found Breeding in Australia and 

 Tasmania. By A. J. North, F.L.S. Sydney : 1890.] 



The object of this catalogue, as the author informs us in 

 his preface, is to give authentic descriptions of the nests and 

 eggs of the birds that have been found breeding in Australia, 

 Tasmania, and the adjacent islands. It refers especially to 

 the specimens in the Collection of the Australian Museum, 

 Sydney, and has been prepared by Mr. A. J. North, an 

 Assistant in the Zoological Department of that Museum. 



