360 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



' Hand-list ' (iii. p. 107) ; but there can be no doubt that the 

 birds before me are referable to his P. torquata. 



Besides the New Hebrides Group, this bird occurs in the 

 Fiji Islands, whence we have specimens from Viti Levu, col- 

 lected by Kleiuschmidt in 1878. 



-r CEsTRELATA FULIGINOSA. 



Procellaria fuliginosa, Kuhl; BuUer, B. N. Zeal. p. 303, 



Procellaria macroptera, Gould, Handb. B. Austr. ii. p, 449. 



Procellaria gouldi, Huttou; Buller, B. N. Zeal. p. 308. 



Sir W. BuUer's collection contains two specimens attri- 

 buted to P. gouldi, Hutton. They agree with one in the 

 British Museum from the coast of Tasmania, referred by 

 Gould to P. macroptera, Smith. These I have compared 

 with a large series from the South Atlantic Ocean, the Cape 

 Seas, and elsewhere ; and though they are rather larger and 

 (especially the New-Zealand specimens) have stronger bills, I 

 do not think the differences sufficiently constant or important 

 to justify the recognition of more than one form of this 

 widely ranging species. Some stress has been laid upon the 

 greyness of the face of P. gouldi ; but this character, too, 

 fails, and a specimen before me with a short wing has the 

 chin white. 



XXXVII. — Notices of recent Ornithological Publications. 



[Contiuued from p. 282.] 

 59. Bartlett on Weavers and Finches. 



[A Monograph of the Weaver-Birds, Ploceidae, and arhoreal and ter- 

 restrial Finches, Fringillidse. By Edward Bartlett. Parts I., II. 4to. 

 Maidstone: 1888.] 



We wish every success to IVIr. Edward Bartlett in his 

 efforts to realize a long-cherished plan to produce an illus- 

 trated IMonograph of the Ploceidse and Fringillidse. The 

 undertaking is arduous, as both families are numerous and 

 contain many difficult genera. In the two parts already 

 issued the following species are figured : — 



