270 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



noticed in 'The Ibis/ 1893, p. 131^ sufficient additional 

 information has been obtained to render a supplement neces- 

 sary. Several species have been added to the list of breeders, 

 among these the Short-eared Owl, the nest of which was 

 found near Braunton, probably the most southern record for 

 England. Several rare visitors have also occurred, such as 

 the Ruddy Sheld-Duck ; while a specimen of the American 

 Yellow-billed Cuckoo was picked up dead last October no 

 further off than Bridport, Dorset, and ought to have dropped 

 in Devon. 



42. Elliot on North- American Shore-Birds. 



[North American Shore-Birds: a History of the Snipes, Sandpipers, 

 Plovers, and their Allies inhabiting the Beaches and Marshes of the 

 Atlantic and Pacific Coasts, the Prairies and the Shores of the inland 

 Lakes and Rivers of the North-American Continent ; their Popular and 

 Scientific Names, together with a full Description of their Mode of Life, 

 Nesting, Migration, and Dispersions, with Descriptions of the Summer 

 and Winter Plumages of Adults and Young, so that each Species may be 

 readily identified ; a Reference Book for the Naturalist, Sportsman, and 

 Lover of Birds. By Daniel Giraud Elliot, F.R.S.E, &c. With seventy- 

 four Plates. 8vu. London, 1895.] 



The second and somewhat lengthy title saves us the trouble 

 of explaining the scope of the work. The illustrations are 

 good of their kind, while the letterpress is suitable for the 

 majority of the class of readers for whom it is designed. We 

 are sorry to see a reproduction of the erroneous — and we 

 hoped exploded — story of the discovery of the eggs of the 

 Curlew-Sandpiper in Greenland; in fact the whole article on 

 this subject is full of blunders, and there are other errors which 

 might have been avoided. The name of the distinguished 

 naturalist to the ' Alert ' appears throughout as Fielding ; 

 Capt. Lyon, of the ' Hecla,* is always Lyons, and so on. 



43. Hartert on new Birds. 



[Description of a New Humming-bird. By Ernst Hartert. Novitates 

 Zool. ii. p. 484. 



Description of a new Flycatcher from the Solomon Islands. By Ernst 

 Hartert. Ibid. p. 485.] 



]\Ir. Hartert describes Heliangelus claudia, a new Hum- 



