136 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



Dr. Sharpe as the true Grus antigone of Linnseus, but^ in 

 Dr. Blanford^s opinion, this name had been founded on 

 Edwards's description of the Greater Indian Crane (Nat. Hist. 

 Birds, i. p. 45, pi. 45), which was said to liave " the neck very 

 long, covered in the npper parts with white feathers, which 

 gradually become ash-coloured towards its bottom." This, 

 Dr. Blanford contended, could only apply to the Indian bird, 

 and he therefore proposed the name of Grus ( Antigone) sharpii 

 for the dark-coloured Burmese form, which had no white on 

 the neck. The characters of the two species had been clearly 

 given by Dr. Sharpe in the twenty-third volume of the 

 'Catalogue of Birds/ pp. 263, 261. 



Mr. H. J. Pearson continued his narrative of his recent 

 expedition to Kolguev and Novaya Zemlya, and exhibited 

 specimens of the downy nestlings of Bewick^s Swan, the Bean 

 Goose, Common Eider, Grey Plover, Turnstone, Dunlin, aod 

 Temminck's Stint. He also brought for exhibition a beau- 

 tiful series of the esrsrs of Briinnich^s Guillemot. 



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An interesting discussion ensued on Mr. Pearson^s paper, 

 in which Admiral Markham, Mr. Howard Saunders, Mr. 

 Sclater, and others took part. 



XI. — Notices of recent Ornithological Publications. 

 1 . Andersen on Diomedea melanophrys in the Faeroes. 



[Diomedea melanojohrys, boende paa Faer^erne. Af Knud Andersen. 

 Vidensk. Medd. naturh. K^benhavn, 1894, pp. 241-2G4, pi. v. 



Diomedea melanophrys in the Faeioe Islands. By Knud Andersen. 

 Commuuicated by W. Eagle Clarke, as requested. Proc. Royal Phys. 

 Soc. of Edinburgh, vol. xiii. pp. 91-114, pis. ii. & iii. 1895.] 



In these papers full details are given respecting the Alba- 

 tross which was shot on Myggenas Holm, after consorting 

 with the Gannets there for more than 30 years. Mr. Harvie- 

 Brown has already given some account of this bird, and of 

 another individual of the same species killed in 80° N. lat. 

 (Zool. 1894, p. 337). 



