Recently published Ornithological Works. 133 



land-birds and 1 water-bird^ all the former being peculiar 

 to the island and new to science *. 



Mr. Bryant's researches have added 27 more species to 

 the list, so that the Avifauna of Guadalupe now includes 

 36 species. But these additional species are, it appears, all 

 such as are already known from the adjacent continent, and 

 most of them only occasional visitants. 



The endemic birds of Guadalupe Island remain therefore 

 8 in number ■[, all of them representatives of nearly allied 

 continental forms, from which they have evidently descended, 

 and attained differential characters by isolation. 



Mr. Bryant's notes are full and interesting, and include 

 descriptions of the nesting and eggs of all the endemic 

 species except the Pipilo, Thryothorus, and Polyborus. The 

 last-named bird, it may be remarked, seems likely to become 

 extinct, owing to the unrelenting persecution of it by the 

 " Island Agent." 



5. Buller's 'Birds of Neiv Zealand.' 



[A History of the Birds of New Zealand. Bj Sir Walter Lawry 

 Buller. Part I. July 1887. Folio. London.] 



Sir Walter Buller's first part of his new History of the Birds 

 of New Zealand is now before us. There can be no question 

 as to the completeness with which the author treats his 

 familiar subject, nor as to the excellence of the illustrations 

 prepared by the pencil of Mr. Keulemans. But we are not 

 sure that we altogether like the colour-printing, although 

 there is no doubt that greater uniformity is thereby attained. 

 The following species are figured in Part I. : — Glaucopis 

 wilsoni, G. cinerea, Heteralocha acutirostris, Creadion carun- 

 culatus, C. cinereus, Turnagra hectori and T. crassirostris. 



* See Mr. Ridgway's article " Ornithology of Guadaloupe Island, based 

 on notes and collections made by Dr. Edward Palmer." Bull. U.S. Geol. 

 & Geogr. Surv. Terr. ii. no. 2. 



t These are 



1. Polyborus lutosus. 5. Pipilo consobrinus. 



2. Colaptes rufipileus. 6. Salpinctes guadalupensis. 



3. Oarpodacus amplus. 7. Thryothorus brevicaudus. 



4. Juuco insularis. 8. Regulus obscurus. 



