1918.] Becently published Ornithological Works. 315 



the true P. c. colchicus, found on the eastern shores of the 

 Black Sea, and ending with P. c. satscheiiensis Pleske of 

 Kaiisu. The Japanese P. versicolor is allowed specific rank. 

 In the third note is described a new form of Blue Pie, 

 Cyanopica cyanus interposita, from Corea and Tsinling in 

 Manchuria, allied to tlie Japanese form. 



Murphy on the Colorado Desert. 



[Natural History observations from the Mexican portion of tlie 

 Colorado Desert: -with a Note on the Lower Californiau Pronghorn 

 and a List of Birds. By Robert Cushman Murphy. Abstr. Proc. 

 Linn. Soc. New York, nos. 24-25, 1917, pp. 43-101 ; 1 map & 5 plates 

 of photos.] 



The first portion of this paper deals with the author's 

 journey in 1915 into the interesting portion of the Colorado 

 Desert lying between the Mexican-United States boundary- 

 line and the head of the Gulf of California, probably the 

 driest and most completely desert-area of the North 

 American continent. Some remarks follow on the zonal 

 and associational status of the region, and the previous 

 work of Grinnell in the more northern portion of the area 

 in the southern parts of California and Arizona are in the 

 main confirmed. 



The chief object of the expedition was the collection of 

 examples of a distinct form of Pronghorn {Antilocapra 

 Mmericana peninsularis) for the Brooklyn Museum, a task 

 in which only a moderate success was achieved. The col- 

 lecting of birds was a secondary object, but a list containing 

 the names of 134 species is given, partly based on those 

 collected by Mr. Murphy, partly on a collection made by 

 Mr. S. N. Rhoads some years previously. 



Murphy on a new Albatross. 



[A neAv Albatross from the west coast of South America. By Robert 

 Cushman Murphy. Bull. Amer. Mus. N. H. xxxvii. 1917, pp. 861-864 ; 

 1 text-fig.] 



The Albatross for which Mr. Murphy proposes to form a 

 new subgenus was taken about forty miles off the coast of 



