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touched at points on the coasts of Newfoundland and Labrador, Mr. 

 Palmer accompanj'ing her for the purpose of observing and collecting the 

 fish-eating birds, their eggs and young. He records 40 species of water 

 birds, respecting most of which he has copious and very interesting notes, 

 especially respecting the species of Alcid;e and Laridae observed. He 

 also noted incidentally' 38 species of land birds, an annotated list of which 

 is also presented, in which ''Corvus corax iiohilh (Ridgw.) " is doubtless 

 a lapsus calaini for CorViis corax principalis Ridgw. — J. A. A. 



Lucas on the Anatomy and History of the Great Auk.* — In 1S87 Mr. 

 Lucas, under the direction of the late Professor Baird, visited Funk Island 

 for the purpose of obtaining remains of the great Auk. The object of 

 this visit was satisfactorily- accomplished, Mr. Lucas succeeding in olitain- 

 ing not only a large quantity of the bones of this extinct bird, but much 

 interesting information respecting one of its former favorite breeding 

 resorts. The results of these investigations are given in the present paper, 

 which opens with a chapter entitled ' The Bird Rocks and Funk Island in 

 1887,' occupying the first twenty pages. It includes an account of the 

 gradual extinction of the Great Auk at the localities named, and its causes, 

 etc., and is illustrated with a sketch map of Funk Island. The second 

 part of the paper is on ' Skeletal Variation in the Great Auk,' the princi- 

 pal variations being graphically presented by means of diagrams. The 

 paper concludes with a ' List of Books and Papers Relating to the Great 

 Auk,' an annotated list occupying five pages, from which it appears that 

 the earliest known reference to the Great Auk was published in 1534. 

 There are photogravure illustrations of the inounted specimen of the 

 Great Auk, and of the Great Auk's egg, in the collection of the National 

 Museum. The paper presents mucli valuable historic and anatomical 

 information about this flightless and now extinct bird. — J. A. A. 



Publications Received. — -Cheney, Simon Pease. The Music of Birds. 

 (Pop. Sci. Month., June, 1891.) 



Bmin, Dr. Brieflicher Bericht iiber das Vogelleben von Ugogo. (fouru. 

 fiir Orn., 1891, pp. 56-61.) 



Gatke, Heinrich. Die Vogelwarte Helgoland. Large 8vo, pp 609. 

 13raunschvveig, 1891. 



Grant, John B. Our Common Birds and how to know them. Oblong 

 S^'o, pp. 216. New York: Charles Scribner"s Sons, 1S91. 



Leverkiihn, Paul. Fremden Eier im Nest. Ein Beilrag zur Biologie 

 der Vogel. Svo, pp. 212. Berlin, 1S91. 



Lucas, F. A. Notes on the Osteology of the Paridcs, Sit/a, and C/ia- 

 incea. (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1890, pp. 337-345, pi- xxvii.) 



Meyer, A. B. Ueber einige Tauben von Borneo und den Philippinen. 

 (Journ. fiir Orn., 1891, pp. 69-74.) 



*The Expedition to the Funk Island, with Observations upon tlie History and 

 Anatomy of the Great Auk. By Ficderie A. Luc.ts. Rep. U. S. National Museum, 

 1887-88, pp. 493-529, pll. Ixxi-lxxiii. 



