284- Recently published Ornithological Works. 



again^ the addition of the Salvin-Godman Collection has 

 materially increased the excellence of the series. 



Coloured figures are given of the following species: — 

 Megalestris maccormicki ; Oceanodroma monorhis, 0. hornbyi ; 

 Puffinus persicus ; Majaqueus parkinsoni ; QLstrelata cer- 

 vicalis, (E. aivillaris, and Diomedea irrorata. — P. L. S. 



64. Schalow on Birds from Western Greenland. 



[Ueber eine Vogelsammlung aus Westgronland. Von Herman Schalow. 

 J. f. O. 1895, p. 457.] 



Herr Schalow gives us an account of the birds obtained by 

 Dr. V. Drygalski^s expedition to West Greenland in 1892-93, 

 to which Dr. Vanhoffeu was attached as natui-alist. Examples 

 of 17 species and a number of eggs were obtained. The 

 skins were deposited in the Berlin Museum, and the eggs in 

 the collection of Major Kriiger-Velthusen. The author gives 

 us notes on 29 species in the present memoir. Among 

 these is Tadorna casarca, which appears, without doubt, to 

 have occurred in 1892 in the district of Uperuivik. This is 

 still further north than Iceland, where the Ruddy Sheld- 

 Duck was noticed in 1892 [cf. Pearson, Ibis, 1895^ p. 247). 



65. Sharpe on rare British Birds. 



[A Chapter on Birds. By R. Bowdler Sharpe, LL.D., F.L.S., &c. 

 Rare British Visitors, with Eighteen CohDured Plates. Society for Pro- 

 moting Christian Knowledge. 8vo. London, 1895.] 



This is a pleasantly-written popular work, with illustrations, 

 by Mr. Keulemans, of the Bee-eater, Roller, Red-footed 

 " Kestrel/' Rose-coloured Starling, Golden Oriole, HolbolPs 

 Redpoll, Scarlet Rose- Finch, Two-barred Crossbill, Shore- 

 Lark, Blue-headed Wagtail, White-headed Long-tailed Tit, 

 Waxwing, " Common Tree-Warbler (Hypolais hypolais)," 

 Aquatic Warbler, Rock-Thrush, Arctic Blue-throaty Black- 

 bellied Dipper, and Red-breasted Flycatcher. 



66. Suschkin on a new Shrike. 



[Lanius elcsagni, n. sp. Von P. Suschkin. Bull. Soc. Imp^r. Nat. 

 Moscou, 1895, No. 1.] 



Lanius elaagni is a new Shrike belonging to the Otomela 



