138 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



Murrelet {Sijnthliboramphus antiquus) ; and Mr. Charles B. 

 Cory describes two new species, Hyetornis fieldi and Elainea 

 cherriei, from Santo Domingo. Mr. A. W. Anthony feels 

 reasonably sure that he saw an example of the Fork-tailed 

 Gull, Xema farcatum, off San Diego, California, so perhaps 

 Neboux^s statement that he obtained the type at Monterey 

 may be correct ; especially as examples of this bird have 

 recently been procured by the ' Albatross ' at the Cocos 

 Islands, well to the north of the Galapagos. Mr. Chapman 

 gives interesting proof of the wanderings of a Dwmedea 

 exulans, captured and labelled about 800 miles east of New 

 Zealand, and again taken 12 days later off Juan Fernandez, 

 3100 miles away. Two more European Wigeons {Mareca 

 penelope) are recorded in Indiana by Mr. Ruthven Deane. 



The October number begins with a paper on (Estrelata 

 fisheri by Mr. llidgway, illustrated by a coloured plate, and 

 this very rare bird is compared wdth (E. defiUpjnana. 

 Mr. Anthony makes two new subspecies : Colaptes chi-ysoides 

 brunnescens, from Cape St. Lucas and Arizona, and Passerella 

 ilica stephensi, from the mountains of Southern California. 

 Mr. Chas. W. Richmond describes three new species obtained 

 by Lieut. Wirt Robinson from the island of Margarita, off 

 Venezuela, namely Amazilia alicia, Doleromya pallida, 

 and Cardinalis robinsoni. Yet again new subspecies of 

 Californian birds, Callipepla gambeli deserticola and Speo- 

 tyto cunicularia obscura, are described by Mr. F. Stephens. 

 Mr. Anthony's researches off San Diego have resulted in 

 the acquisition of a small series of Oceanodroma socorroensis, 

 a Petrel hitherto known only from the type taken at Socorro 

 Island by C. H. Townsend. 



4. Berlepsch on a new Phoenicophaes and a new Spilornis. 



[Descriptions of two new Species of the Genera Phamicophaes and 

 Spilornis, with a note on Oriolus consobrinus. By Hans, Graf v. Ber- 

 lepsch. Novitates Zool. ii. p. 70.] 



Phoenicophaes microrhinus is the Bornean form of P. ery- 

 thrognathus, and Spilornis salvadorii replaces S. pallidus 

 (of Borneo) in Nias. The supposed male of Oriolus conso- 

 brinus, Ramsay, from N.E. Borneo is described. 



