Recently published Ornitholuyical Works. 149 



"O'ith the inteution of encouraging a legitimate popular 

 interest in the bird-life of tlie neighbourhood of Salem^ and 

 also as a guide to the collections in the Museum at the 

 same place. The list contains 390 species and subspecies ; 

 of these, three — the Great Auk, the Labrador Duck, and 

 the Passenger Pigeon — are undoubtedly extinct ; of the 

 others, 280 are species of regular occurrence. The list is 

 printed on one side of the page, and there is a photographic 

 plate of Egg Rock, near Nahant, the nesting-site of 

 several species of Terns. 



MoultuH on the Sarawak Museum. 



[Ninth IJepovt of the Sarawak Museum, 1910. J3j J. C. Moulton, 

 Turator. 45 pp. Svo.J 



A good account is here given of the progress of the Sarawak 

 IMuseum in Borneo, which is kept up mainly, we believe, by 

 the liberality of H.H. Rajah Brooke. It has been prepared 

 by the Curator, Mr. J. C. Moulton. 



In the Appendix is given a complete list of the 416 

 Boruean birds represented in the Sarawak Museum. Among 

 these, we observe, are sixteen specimens of the rare and 

 peculiar Bornean type Pityriasis gymnocephala and two 

 examples of the fine Pheasant LoViophasis buhveri. 



OberhoJser on the Subspecies of Butorides virescens. 



[A Revision of the Subspecies of the Green Heron, Butorides 

 virescens. Hj Harry C. Oberholser. Proc. U.S.Nat. Museum, vol. xlii. 

 1912, pp. 529-577.] 



The author, after examining a large series of the widely 

 spread Green Heron of America (Butorides virescens^, divides 

 the species into seventeen subspecies, and gives full des- 

 criptions of all of them, adding other particulars as to their 

 variation and distribution. The following subspecies are now 

 newly described : — B. v. eremonomus, B. v. mesatus, B. v. hyjjer- 

 notius, B, V. cubanus, B. v. christophorensis, B. v. dominicanus, 

 B. V. lacianus, B. v. barbadensis, B. v. r/ranadensis, B. v. tobn- 

 gensisj and B. v. curacensis. 



