248 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



Marsh Sandpiper has not yet been recognized as a British bird^ 

 although occasionally met with in Northern France^ it is very 

 desirable that this specimen should be carefully examined by a 

 competent authority, and its authenticity placed beyond doubt. 



56. Meyer on Pallas' s Sand-Grouse in Bulgaria. 



[Ueber das Vorkommen des Steppenliuhnes in Bulgarien. Von A. B. 

 Meyer, Hugo's Jagd-Zeitung, Jahrg. 31, no. 23, p. 685.] 



Dr. Meyer, being persuaded that Pallas's Sand-Grouse 

 ought to have crossed Bulgaria on its way to Western Europe, 

 has endeavoured to extract some evidence from King Ferdinand 

 on tlie subject. The royal reply does not seem to us to be 

 very convincing on the question, in fact, rather to prove a 

 negative. But Dr. Meyer appears satisfied to deduce from it 

 the conclusion that the Sand-Grouse was met with in Bul- 

 garia in March 1888 near Sophia. 



57. Nelson on the Birds of Alaska. 



[Report on the Natural-History Collections made in Alaska between 

 the years 1877 and 1881 by EdAvard W. Nelson. Edited by Henry W. 

 Henshaw. With 21 plates. Washington : 1887.J 



In our last number we noticed Mr. Turner^s work on the 

 birds of Alaska [supra, p. 133). We have now a still more 

 important volume of the same series of publications (Arctic 

 Series of Publications issued in connexion with the Signal 

 Service, U. S. A.) before us. Mr. Nelson was more than 

 four years in Alaska, his headquarters having been at St, 

 Michael's, whence, however, various expeditions were made 

 along the coast and up the Yukon valley. Mr, Nelson also 

 accompanied the U,S. s,s. 'Corwin^ during her voyage 

 through Bering's Straits in search of the ' Jeanette' in 1887, 

 and is one of the few naturalists who have landed in Wrangel 

 and Herald Islands, Of this excursion and the birds there 

 met with he has already given us an excellent account (see 

 Ibis, 1884, p, 105). We have now a capital memoir from 

 the same pen on Alaskan ornithology, which, however, we 

 regret to say, on account of the failure of the author's 

 health, has been edited by Mr. Henshaw. 



