Recently published Ornithological Works. M7 



appears in the form with which Willughby, White, Montagu, 

 Yarrell, Hewitsou, Cordeaux, Stevenson, the B.O.U. List, and 

 other authoi'ities have familiarized us ! 



65. Brewster on new North- American Birds. 



[Descriptions of seven supposed new North-American Birds. By 

 William Brewster. ' The Auk,' viii. p. 139.] 



The subspecies described in this article are Megascops asio 

 aikeni from Colorado ; M. a. macfarlanei from Washington 

 Terr. ; M. a. saturates from Puget Sound ; Contopus richard- 

 soni peninsnl(s from Lower California; Ammodramus henslowii 

 occidentalis from Dakota ; and Pipilo maculatus magnirostris, 

 Virio solitarius lucasanus, and Sitta carolinensis laguna, all 

 three from Lower California. 



QQ. Christy's Local Lists of British Birds. 



[A Catalogue of Local Lists of British Birds, arranged under Counties. 

 By Miller Christy, F.L.S. 8vo. London : 1891.] 



]\ir. Christy has done a good deed in preparing a catalogue 

 of the local lists of British birds, which are now becoming 

 very numerous. The titles of the works catalogued are 

 placed under counties, the latter being divided into England 

 and Wales, Scotland, and L^eland, and arranged alphabetically 

 under these three heads. But the works themselves are 

 arranged chronologically. 



The list appears to contain about 450 titles. 



67. Dalla Torre on the Fauna of Heligoland. 



[Die Fauna von Helgoland. Von Prof. Dr. K. W. v. Dalla Torre. 

 8vo. Jena: 1889.] 



It is now quite understood that Heligoland is to be the 

 seat of a new Biological Station to be founded and en- 

 dowed by the Imperial Government of Germany. To no 

 better purpose in our eyes could the German people apply 

 their recent acquisition. Under these circumstances Prof. 

 Dalla Torre's resume of what we as yet know of the Fauna 



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