Recently published Ornithological Works. 383 



rnf/is, and Numenius tennirostr/s arc now fignrcd for the 

 first time ; wliile those of Turcbts naumanni arc rcfigurcd, as 

 there appears to have been some uncertainty in the case of 

 former specimens. 



The text requires but little comment, tliough we may 

 remark that, while Mr. Dresser's pages were in the press, 

 Dr. Selater exhibited an egg of the Great Shearwatei^, 

 liitlierto unknowni, from Tristan da Cunha (c/. Bull. B.O.C. 

 vol. xxii. p. 22), and that the record of the Sooty Shearwater 

 from the Forth area should be attributed to VV. Evans 

 instead of A. H. Evans. 



The plates are, as usual, excellent, though perhaps the 

 Guillemot's eggs might have been rather brighter, and we 

 feel quite sorry to bid farewell to such a fine series of illus- 

 trations, accompanied as they are by Mr. Dresser's careful 

 and accurate information. 



36. Ferry on Birds from Costa Rica. 



[Catalogue of a CoUectiou of Birds from Costa Rica. By J. F. Ferry. 

 Field Museum of Nat. Hist. Ornitliolop-ical Pub!, i. no. 6. Chicago, 

 U)10.] 



Mr. J. F. Ferry, Assistant in the Ornithological Depart- 

 ment of the Field Museum of Natural History at Chicago, 

 made an excursion to Costa Rica in the spring of 1908, and 

 collected birds in various localites on the Atlantic slope 

 of that country. In the present memoir, after a preface 

 containing an account of the places where he stopped, 

 the author gives a list of the species represented in the 

 collection which he made, some 120 in number, accompanied 

 by short field-notes. None of these species are new, but some 

 of them are of interest. The difficult forms were referred 

 to the National Museum for exact identification. 



A nest of the Quezal {^Pharomacrus mocinno costaricensis) 

 was found in a dead stump standing in partially cleared forest, 

 some twelve feet from the ground, but it was unfortunately 

 empty. 



We think that our American friends, when they use new 

 and little-known terms such as Semnornls, Pselliophorus, &c., 



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