56.2 Recently piihlished OrnltJioluy'ical IVurks. 



papers in this new Journal (see above, p. 175). We Lave 

 now received vol. i. no. 2, whicli contains another paper by 

 the same author. It describes a new CEdic?iemus ironi 

 German East Africa, proposed to be called (Edicnemus 

 csongor. 



64. ArrigonVs Ornithological Note. 



[Nota ornitologica sopra la receute cattiira della Geocichla sibirica 

 in Italia. Conte Arrigoui degli OJdi. Atti R. 1st. Veiieto, Ixx. p. 2 

 (1910).] 



In October 1908 Count Arrigoni obtained in the market 

 at Padua a Thrush which he believes to be a young female 

 of Turdus sibiricus, and has had it preserved for his own 

 collection at Ca' Oddo. After an exact desciii)tion of the 

 specimen, he adds a list of the examples of this Siberian 

 species hitherto recorded in Germany (13), Bohemia (2), 

 Holland (2), Great Britain (2), and France, Belgium, and 

 Norway each once. It is, in fact, an occasional wanderer 

 to Western Eui'ope. 



65. ' The Auk: 



[The Auk. A Quarterly Journal of Ornithology. Vol. xxvii. No. 4, 

 Oct. 1910; Vol. xxviii. Nos. 1, 2, Jan. -April, 1911.] 



The most valual.le information contained in these three 

 numbers is undoubtedly that given in Apiil on the discovery 

 of the nest antl eggs of the Spoon-billed Sandpiper [Euryno- 

 rhynchus pygnmus) by j\Ir. J. E. Thayer. Mr. Koren was 

 sent by him to Wrangel Island, Init was driven back by 

 storms, and it was left to Capt. F. Kleinschmidt to find 

 the first specimens at Cape Serdze, on the eastern coast of 

 Siberia. Four eggs were obtained, along with the parent 

 bird, as well as eight chicks in down, and our American 

 kinsfolk are heartily to be congratulated on their success. 

 Heads of both adult and young are figured in colour, and 

 all four eggs. 



Second in interest to this great discovery are various 

 articles on the Passenger Pigeon by Messrs. A. H. Wright, 

 C. F. Hodge, and F. H. Allen. The first furnishes early 



