382 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



77. Stejneger and Lucas on Pallas's Cormorant. 



[Contributions to the Natural History of the Commander Islands. — X. 

 Contribution to the History of Pallas's Cormorant. By Leonhard Stej- 

 neger and Frederick A. Lucas. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xii. p. 83.] 



It seems certain that Pallas's Cormorant {Phalacrocorux 

 perspicillatus) is now an extinct species, like the Great 

 Auk and the Fregilupus of Bourbon. Dr. Stejneger has 

 already stated thus much (Pr. U. S. N. M. 1883, p. 65), and 

 now confirms what he has said. The fortunate Museums that 

 contain specimens of this noble bird are the British Museum, 

 the Leyden Museum, and the Museum of the Imperial Aca- 

 demy of Sciences at St. Petersburg. When in Bering Island 

 in 1882, Mr. Stejneger dug out of the cliffs at the N.W. end 

 of the island some bones of this extinct Cormorant, which are 

 now described by Mr. Lucas. 



78. Tschusi zu Schmidhofen' s Ornithologisches Jahrhuch. 



[Ornithologisches Jahrbuch. — Organ fur das paleearktische Faunen- 

 gebiet. Herausgegeben von Victor Bitter von Tschusi zu Schmidhofen. 

 Band i. Heft 1. 8vo. Hallein : 1890.] 



The well-known authority on European birds, Victor, 

 Ritter von Tschusi zu Schmidhofen, has started anew Journal 

 of Ornithology, of which the first number is now before us. 

 It is to relate specially to European birds, but also, it appears, 

 to embrace those of the whole Palsearctic Region. The 

 present number contains papers on some scarce birds of Istria, 

 by Dr. S. v. Washington, on those of Prussian Silesia, by 

 C. Hoericke, on those of Moravia, by V. Capek, an account 

 of the breeding of Muscicapa parva in New Pomerania, by 

 Major A. v. Homeyer, and other smaller articles. We wish 

 the new enterprise success, but rather doubt whether there 

 is room for it. 



79. Woodford on the Head-hunters of the Solomon Islands. 



[A Naturalist among the Head-hunters : being an Account of Three 

 Visits to the Solomon Islands in the years 1886, 1887, and 1888. By 

 Charles Morris Woodford. London : 1890.] 



The well-known explorer of the Solomon Islands has put 



