568 Recently published Or^nithological Works. 



of having a large white speculum on the outer six or 

 seven primaries, is only ornamented with a small concealed 

 spot of white on the fifth quill. Culm. 23 mm., wing 109, 

 tars. 35-6. 



Hab. Mountains of Sumba. Named in honour of Miss 

 Maria de Korte, 



Mr. Howard Saunders gave a short account of a visit made 

 by Col. H. W. Feilden and himself to the Pyrenees, chiefly 

 the Eastern districts. Continuously unfavourable weather 

 and heavy falls of soft snow hampered their movements, 

 but they managed to obtain some interesting facts regarding 

 the distribution of birds. Inasmuch as Catalonia, the chief 

 province visited, was the most prosperous and highly cultivated 

 portion of Spain, birds of prey and other conspicuous species 

 could hardly be expected there, while the lagoons and swamps 

 on the Gulf of Rosas, which made so brave a show on the map, 

 were now either drained and cultivated, or were peaty pools 

 and mere bog-holes. Investigation indicated that the asserted 

 existence of Tetrao tetrix, even in the Eastern Pyrenees, 

 is an error; that Bnnasa betulina is seldom, if ever, found 

 to the eastward of Luchon, and chiefly to the westward of 

 Gabas ; while Tetrao urogallus is more abundant in the spruce- 

 fir woods than is generally supposed. There was no evidence 

 that Gyps fulvus nests anywhere within the French frontier. 

 A line of migration of some importance appeared to pass from 

 Catalonia, over the Col de Puymorens (6300 feet), to the 

 valley of the Ariege, in France ; and Turtle-doves, Willow- 

 Warblers, &c. were found above snow covered with footprints 

 of the Ptarmigan. 



XLIX. — Notices of recent Ornithological Publications. 



[Continued from p. 420.] 



95. Barrett -Hamilton on the Birds of the Harrow Distr'ict. 



[Harrow School Scientific Society's Memoirs. 1891. Harrow Birds. 

 By G. E. H. Barrett-Hamilton. 8vo. Harrow, 1892.] 



This is a useful supplement to Mr. J. E. Harting's ' Birds 



