﻿270 
  Recently 
  published 
  Ornithological 
  Works. 
  

  

  have 
  recently 
  appeared 
  Mr. 
  North 
  chronicles 
  Erismatura 
  

   australis 
  and 
  Spatula 
  variegnta 
  in 
  Tasmania^ 
  and 
  three 
  

   species 
  new 
  to 
  the 
  ornis 
  of 
  Norfolk 
  Island. 
  

  

  58. 
  Pigott 
  on 
  London 
  Birds. 
  

  

  [London 
  Birds 
  and 
  London 
  Insects 
  (Revised 
  Edition) 
  and 
  other 
  

   Sketciies. 
  By 
  T. 
  Digby 
  Pigott, 
  C.B. 
  Royal 
  8vo. 
  London 
  : 
  1892.] 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Pigott^s 
  sketches 
  of 
  bird-life 
  in 
  London, 
  the 
  Shetlands, 
  

   St. 
  Kilda, 
  and 
  elsewhere 
  are 
  evidently 
  those 
  of 
  an 
  ardent 
  

   observer 
  who 
  is 
  devoted 
  to 
  a 
  favourite 
  subject. 
  They 
  have 
  

   already 
  become 
  known 
  to 
  many 
  of 
  us 
  in 
  the 
  pages 
  of 
  the 
  

   * 
  Contemporary 
  Review 
  ' 
  and 
  other 
  periodicals, 
  and 
  will 
  be 
  

   much 
  appreciated 
  in 
  their 
  collected 
  form. 
  In 
  the 
  Appendix 
  

   is 
  given 
  a 
  list 
  of 
  wild 
  birds 
  noticed 
  in 
  London, 
  based 
  upon 
  

   Dr. 
  Hamilton's 
  list 
  of 
  1879 
  ('Zoologist/ 
  1879, 
  p. 
  273). 
  It 
  

   records 
  94< 
  species. 
  

  

  59. 
  Schalow 
  on 
  Pratincola 
  rubicola 
  in 
  N.E. 
  Germany. 
  

  

  [Ueber 
  das 
  Vorkommen 
  von 
  Pratincola 
  rubicola 
  (L.) 
  im 
  ostlichen 
  Nord- 
  

   deutschland. 
  Von 
  H. 
  Schalow. 
  Sitz.-Ber. 
  Ges. 
  nat. 
  Freunde, 
  Berlin, 
  

   1892, 
  p. 
  141.] 
  

  

  Just 
  as 
  the 
  Elbe 
  in 
  Northern 
  Germany 
  divides 
  the 
  areas 
  

   occupied 
  by 
  Corvus 
  corone 
  on 
  the 
  west 
  and 
  C. 
  comix 
  on 
  the 
  

   east, 
  so, 
  it 
  would 
  appear 
  from 
  Herr 
  Schalow's 
  observations, 
  

   does 
  it 
  separate 
  the 
  ranges 
  of 
  Pratincola 
  rubicola 
  and 
  P. 
  ru- 
  

   betra, 
  except 
  that 
  between 
  the 
  Elbe 
  and 
  the 
  Weser 
  both 
  

   species 
  are 
  found. 
  East 
  of 
  the 
  Elbe 
  P. 
  rubetra 
  is 
  the 
  ordinary 
  

   species, 
  though 
  it 
  occurs 
  occasionally 
  on 
  the 
  west 
  of 
  that 
  river, 
  

   whereas 
  west 
  of 
  the 
  Elbe 
  P. 
  rubicola 
  is 
  by 
  far 
  the 
  most 
  pre- 
  

   dominant 
  form. 
  {Cf. 
  Hartert, 
  Ibis, 
  1892, 
  p. 
  357.) 
  

  

  60. 
  Shufeldt 
  on 
  the 
  Fossil 
  Birds 
  of 
  the 
  Oregon 
  Desert 
  

   Region. 
  

  

  [A 
  Study 
  of 
  the 
  Fossil 
  Avifauna 
  of 
  the 
  Equus 
  Beds 
  of 
  the 
  Oregon 
  

   Desert. 
  By 
  R. 
  W. 
  Shufeldt, 
  M.D. 
  Journ. 
  Ac. 
  Nat. 
  Sc. 
  Philad. 
  ix. 
  

   p. 
  389.] 
  

  

  Dr. 
  Shufeldt 
  now 
  gives 
  us 
  a 
  complete 
  account 
  of 
  the 
  very 
  

  

  