480 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



scribes a visit to the Bird Rocks of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, 

 largely frequented by Gannets, Guillemots, &c. ; and in the 

 July number gives an account of an excursion to the Penguin 

 Islands, off the east coast of Newfoundland, in search of traces 

 of the Great Auk. Not a bone or fragment of egg-shell was 

 discovered there; but the paper is valuable and interesting, 

 owing to the way in which the author criticises and examines, 

 by the light of his personal experiences, the statements of 

 Cartier and other ancient mariners. Mr. W. Brewster de- 

 scribes as new subspecies (p. 136) Glaucidium gnoma hoskinsii, 

 from Lower California ; Mitrephanes phaocercus tenuirostris, 

 from Western Mexico ; and Dendroica cestiva sonorana, from 

 Southern Arizona, Western Texas, and Sonora. He also 

 adds some remarks to a series, as yet uncompleted, of " Notes 

 on the Birds of Fort Klamath, Oregon,'^ by Dr. J. C. Merrill, 

 U.S.A. (pp. 139 & 251). Mr. Cory concludes his long- 

 drawn-out " Birds of the West Indies," and describes (p. 266) 

 Myiarchus berlepschi, sp. n., from the island of St. Kitts. 

 We have also the conclusion of Mr. W. E. D. Scott's "Avi- 

 fauna of Pinal County &c., Arizona,'' annotated by Mr. J. 

 A. Allen; and (pp. 183-188) Mr. Scott has some "Supple- 

 mentary Notes from the Gulf Coast of Florida," with the 

 description of anew Marsh Wren, Cistothorus 7nariana. Mr. 

 W. Amory Jeffries describes (p. 168) Trochilus violajuguhim, 

 sp. n., from Santa Barbara, California. Mr. William 

 Butcher's " Bird Notes from Long Island " contain remarks 

 on the frequent occurrence of our Corn Crake [Crex pra- 

 tensis) and on the complete acclimatization of our Skylark 

 [Alauda arvensis) there ; and a record of the first genuine 

 occurrence in America of the Old- World species Larus mi- 

 niitus, an immature example having been shot about 15th 

 September, 1887, and identified by Mr. Dutcher ; the pre- 

 vious record under that name probably I'cferred to Bona- 

 parte's Gull. Dr. Shufeldt publishes some observations 

 on the ptcrylosis of certain Picidse, illustrated by five figures 

 reproduced from ' Forest and Stream ' of August 25th, 

 1887. 



On the San Pedro Martir Isle, a rock 1045 feet high and 



