562 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



Sign. Carazzi, of the Museo Civico of Spezia^ adds in this 

 second appendix to his former lists* four more species to 

 the avifauna of this district, and shows that one species must 

 be removed from the list — the supposed example of Terekia 

 cinerea having turned out to be Tringa canutus. The total 

 number of species of birds now recognized in this district is 

 therefore 315. 



102. Chamberlain's 'Notes on Non-Volant Birds.' 



[Notes on Non-Yolant Birds. Being a Paper read to the Members of 

 the Largo Naturalists' Society, 2nd August, 1888. By Walter Chamber- 

 lain, r.Z.S. 8v(). Cupar, Fifeshire : 1888.] 



Mr. Walter Chamberlain has put together, in his in- 

 teresting Address to the Largo Naturalists' Society, some 

 of the chief facts known concerning birds that cannot fly. 

 We are not quite certain that the Kagu [Rhino chetus jubatus) 

 can be strictly comprehended in the list. Mr. Chamberlain 

 is, no doubt, correct in his conclusion that the Penguin-type 

 has *' at no period of its existence possessed the power of 

 flight.'^ As regards the vexed question as to the descent of 

 the Struthiones, he inclines to Mr. Wallace's view, that the 

 early progenitors of these birds had ''at least some limited 

 powers of flight." 



103. Check-List of North-American Birds [Supplement) . 



[Supplement to the Code of Nomenclature and Check-List of North- 

 American Birds, adopted by the American Ornithologists' Union, pre- 

 pared by a Committee of the Union. 8vo. New York : 1889.] 



The Supplement to the ' Check-List of North-American 

 Birds ' contains the names of the " tenable species and sub- 

 species, genera and subgenera, added since the publication of 

 the Check-List^ together with the necessary eliminations and 

 the valid changes in nomenclature made since the Check- 

 List was issued." It is conveniently arranged under three 

 heads, — " Additions," " Eliminations,'' and " Changes of 

 Nomenclature." The additional species and subspecies are 

 63 in number, besides which Chen cm'ulescens is " restored 

 * Cf. Ibis, 1888, pp. 134, 363. 



