664 Recently published OrnilJioloyical JVovks. 



become Chlidomis, and Hirundo lunifruns would stand as 

 H. albifrons. 



'My. W. Brewster writes on the gliding flight of Gulls, 

 A^hiell he is inclined to attribute to the action of the wind 

 against the terminal portion of the remiges, adjusted and 

 readjusted by the birds in conjunction with movements of 

 the body ; Dr. ToAvnsend discusses the Genealogy of Birds, 

 as evidenced by their methods of progression in water, in 

 the air and on land ; Mr. S. Trotter has a paper on the 

 lielation of Genera to Faunal Areas; Mr. H. W. Wright 

 comments on the regularity of birds' evening and morning- 

 songs; while Mr. Brewster is again to the fore with Notes 

 written by the late F. Bolles on the habits of Whip-Poor- 

 Wills and Owls. Mr. J. T. Nichols writes on " Recognition 

 Marks " in certain species, but does not seem to have much 

 that is new to tell us ; and Mr. McAtee's subsequent paper 

 may be taken as a criticism of his views. We do not quite 

 understand Dr. Bishop's standpoint in his article on the 

 Bird-markets of Southern Europe. He certainly dei)loves 

 the destruction of so many species in the South, but seems 

 to imply that birds are not necessarily extirpated by such 

 destruction. He instances the taking of eggs at Flam- 

 borough and the shooting of Woodpigeons in England, but 

 surely he must know that the Flaraborough climbers are veiy 

 careful in managing their '' preserves," and that tlie Wood- 

 pigeons shot are mainly foreign (and liarmful) invaders. 



As regards distribution, Dr. ToMnsend writes of St. John 

 A^alley in New Brunswick, Mr. Iseley of Sedgwick County, 

 Kansas, Mr. Arnold of Newfoundland, Mr. Bailey of the 

 mountains of Virginia, Messrs. Bruner and Feild of tliosc 

 of West Carolina, Dr. Bergtold of the Gila liiver. New 

 Mexico ; but these papers are of much less interest than 

 that of ]Mr. Rlioads on the ' Paramo ' of Central Ecuador, 

 and the species found from the upper limits of trees to the 

 snow-line, including Oreotrochilus pich/nc/ia and BJiamplio- 

 micron stanleyi. Dr. AVhecler also has much to tell us of 

 the birds found to the north of the Great Slave Lake round 

 Fort Enterprise. . . 



