448 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



82. Burmeister on the Fauna of Patagonia. 



[Relation de un viaje a la gobernacion del Chubut por Carlos V. Bur- 

 meister, Ayudante del Museo National. Apendice. Alguuas noticias 

 sobre la Fauna de la Patagonia. Anales del Mus. Nac. de Buenos Ayres. 

 Entrega deciinaquinta. 1888.] 



The appendix to Sr. Carlos Burmeister's narrative of his 

 journey across the territory of Chubat, published in the 

 fifteenth part of the c Annals of the National Museum of 

 Buenos Aires/ contains a summary of what is known of the 

 fauna of Patagonia, so far as regards the vertebrated 

 animals. After a short resume' of the chief authorities on 

 this subject, Sr. Burmeister gives a systematic list of the 

 Mammals, Birds, Reptiles, and Batrachians hitherto recorded 

 as having been met with in Patagonia and in the Falkland 

 Islands, which belong to the same fauna. Besides the names, 

 little information is added in most cases except the localities. 

 The species of which no examples are contained in the 

 National Museum of Buenos Aires are indicated by an 

 asterisk. The birds thus enumerated are about 190 in 

 number, but among their names are a few, we think, which 

 might be eliminated, as merely synonyms of other species 

 also on the list. The author appears to have added very 

 little original matter to his compilation, and in referring the 

 large Cormorant of the Patagonian coast, often called Phala- 

 crocorax carunculatus, to P. verrucosus, Cab., has fallen into 

 an error. Dr. Cabanis's species was established on the allied 

 form from Kerguelen Island (see Birds of the ' Challenger ' 

 Expedition, p. 122, pi. xxvi.), and the Patagonian species 

 should probably be called P. albiventris (op. cit. p. 121, 

 pi. xxv. fig. 2). But Sr. Burmeister does not appear to be 

 acquainted with this work. 



83. Christy's ' Birds of Essex.' 



[Essex Field Club Special Memoirs. — Vol. II. Tbe Birds of Essex : 

 A Contribution to tbe Natural History of the County. By Miller 

 Christy, F.L.S. With 162 woodcut illustrations, two plans, and a 

 frontispiece. 8vo. Chelmsford, Buckhurst Hill, and London : 1890.] 



The number of avifaunas of the English counties increases 



