Recently published Ornithological Works. 291 



America and adjacent Islands, collected in 1888-89, with Descriptions of 

 new Species. By Charles H. Townsend. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xiii. 

 p. 131.] 



In the winter of 1889 the U.S. Fish-Commission S.S. 

 ' Albatross ' explored the islands on the coast of California^ 

 besides visiting many spots on the mainland, and made a 

 collection of 226 birds, which are referable to 92 species and 

 subspecies. Five new species and six new subspecies are now 

 shortly described, namely, Speotyto rostrata, Zenaidura clari- 

 onensis, Troglodytes tanneri, and Puffinus auricularis, from 

 Clarion Island ; Oceanodroma socorroensis from Socorro 

 Island ; Amphispiza belli cinerea from Lower California ; Oto- 

 corys alpestris pallida from Sonora ; Melospiza fasciata gra- 

 minea, from Santa Barbara Island; Helminthophila celata 

 sordida, Melospiza fasciata clementee, and Otocorys alpestris 

 insularis from San Clemente Island. The last-named sub- 

 species was also found very abundantly in San Nicolas, Santa 

 Cruz, and Santa Rosa Islands. A specimen of Halocyptena 

 microsoma, Cones, was obtained in Panama Bay. This is 

 the second example obtained of this Petrel (c/. Ibis, 1868, 

 p. 345). 



61. Wilson and Evans on Hawaiian Birds. 



[Aves Hawaiienses : the Birds of the Sandwicli Islands. By Scott B. 

 Wilson, F.Z.S., assisted by A. H. Evans, M.A., F.Z.S. Part I. Dec. 

 1890. 4to. London : 1890. E. H. Porter.] 



We are much pleased to welcome the first part of Mx. 

 Scott Wilson's promised volume on the avifauna of the 

 Hawaiian Islands, and trust he will be able, with the assist- 

 ance of Mr. Evans, to bring it to a satisfactory conclusion. 

 It will be very convenient to have the great advances Avhich 

 Mr. Wilson has undoubtedly made in our knowledge of this 

 most interesting subject incorporated with all that was pre- 

 viously known of it. 



Mr. Frohawk's plates will give pleasure to all who study 

 them. They represent the following species : — Phceornis 

 obscura, Acrulocercus nobilis, Loxops coccinea, L. flammea, 



