210 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



recorded from various localities until the following 1 May. 

 In some places large flocks, in others small flocks and 

 single specimens, were observed. In Great Britain they 

 appear to have been not quite so numerous as in some 

 districts of the Continent, but four instances of their 

 appearance in England, four in Scotland, and one in Ireland 

 are mentioned by the author of this paper, and others have 

 been recorded in the ' Zoologist ' and various journals (see 

 also Mr. Workman's letter, ' Ibis/ 1904, p. 307). 



31. Van Hoeffen on South- Polar Birds. 



[Die Tierwelt des Siidpolargebiets. Yon Prof. Dr. E. Van Hoeffen in 

 Kiel. Sonderabdr. a. d. Zeitschr. d. Gesellsch. f. Erdk. z. Berlin, 1904.] 



This extract from the ' Zeitschrift ' of the Geographical 

 Society of Berlin contains a chapter by Prof. Van Hoeffen on 

 the South-Polar Fauna, in which will be found some remarks 

 on the Antarctic Penguins and other birds, with a few 

 illustrations in the text. A much more detailed account of 

 the ornithological results of the German South- Polar Ex- 

 pedition has, however, been published by the same writer in 

 the 'Journal f. Ornithologie ' (1905, Heft iii.). During 

 the year's detention of the Expedition in the ice on the 

 shores of King-William's Land, only ten species of birds 

 were observed. Of these the distinctively Antarctic forms 

 were, but five — namely, the two Penguins {Aptenodytes 

 forsteri and Pyyoscelis adelice), the Skua Gull (Stercorarius 

 maccormicki) , and two species of Petrel (Thalassceca antarctica 

 and Pagodroma nivea). The Emperor Penguin was observed 

 throughout the year, usually in large flocks of 300 or so, 

 and was apparently breeding on the ice, as in the beginning 

 of December great numbers of young birds in down were 

 met with. The Antarctic Penguin was only seen from 

 November to March. 



32. Winge on the Birds of the Danish Lighthouses. 



[Fuglene ved de danske Fyr i 1904. 22de Aarsberetning orn danske 

 Fugle. Ved Herluf Winge. Vidensk. Meddel. fra den naturh. Foren. 

 i. Kbhvn. 1905, p. 108.] 



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