188 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



Some of them are of considerable interest — such as Bucco, 

 Galbula, Manacus, and Chiroxiphia. 



2. Allen on the Birds of N.E. Siberia. 



[Report on the Birds collected in North-Eastern Siberia by the Jesup 

 North Pacific Expedition, with Field-notes by the Collectors. By J. A. 

 Allen. Bull. A. M. Nat. Hist. xxi. p. 219 (1905).] 



The extreme north-eastern point of Asia is a most in- 

 teresting country to the Palaearctic ornithologist, and we 

 cannot be too grateful to Mr. Allen for giving us an account 

 of the 800 skins, besides nests and eggs, which were collected 

 on that coast by Mr. Buxton and his assistants during the 

 " Jesup " North Pacific Expedition of 1900-01. They are 

 referred to 125 species, while two others are added from 

 Mr. Buxton's notes. Two of the species, Alauda buxtoni 

 and Anthus anadyrensis, are characterised as new to science. 

 The species are mostly in the British List, and, though the birds 

 of Kamtschatka have been well catalogued by Guillemard 

 and Stejneger, additional information as to their occurrence 

 in this remote district is always acceptable. 



Dr. Allen commences his list at the lower end and uses 

 the most newly-discovered names of the American Check- 

 list. But, for the sake of his less-advanced brethren on this 

 side of the Atlantic, he might have explained to us the 

 meaning of such names as Gavia lumme and Totanus ater, 

 under which some of our familiar birds lie hidden. 



3. 'Annals of Scottish Natural History.' 



[The Annals of Scottish Natural History. Nos. 55 & 56, July and 

 October 1905.] 



The first of these numbers contains some interesting 

 Zoological Notes out of the log-book of the Ben Nevis 

 Observatory, from 1872 down to the deplorable close of that 

 institution on October 1st, 1904. The species of birds recorded 

 from the summit of the highest mountain in the British 

 Islands could hardly be many; the most abundant being the 



