498 Recently published Ornithological Works. 
Naturalist to the expedition. The list contains the names 
of 44 species, mostly well-known sea- and water-birds, the 
Passeres numbering only eight. Cygnus columbianus was 
found to be common on Southampton Island, where it was 
breeding on the swampy ground about the ponds. 
75. Mearns on the Birds of San Clemente Island. 
[ Mammals of the Mexican Boundary of the United States, a Descriptive 
Catalogue of the Species of Mammais occurring in that Region with a 
General Summary of the Natural History, and a List of Trees. By E. A. 
Mearns, M.D., Major and Surgeon, U.S. Army.—Part I. U.S. National 
Museum Bulletin 56. Washington, 1907. ] 
Hidden in the middle of the first volume of Dr. Mearns’s 
account of the Mammals of the Mexican Boundary 
will be found (pp. 141-2) a list of 37 birds observed 
and collected on the island of San Clemente in August 
1894. San Clemente lies out in the Pacific, about 60 miles 
from the nearest mainland in the State of California. Adding 
to his own list two species of which examples were procured 
on San Clemente by Mr. C. H. Townshend in 1888 and 
1889, and eleven others recorded by Mr. J. Grinnell in 1897, 
Dr. Mearns gives 50 species as the total number of the Avi- 
fauna of this island. Mr. Grinnell’s report appears to have 
been issued as “ Publication No. I. of the Pasadena Academy 
of Sciences,” of which we have never seen a copy. Four 
or five of the Passerine birds of San Clemente have been 
separated as “‘ subspecies ” by the American ornithologists. 
76. Newton’s ‘ Ootheca Wolleyana’ 
[Ootheca Wolleyana: an Illustrated Catalogue of the Collection of 
Birds’ Eggs formed by the late John Wolley, Jun., M.A., F.Z.S. Edited 
from the Original Notes by Alfred Newton. Part IV. Alcae—Anseres: 
with Supplement and Appendix. London: R. H. Porter, 1907. ] 
With the greatest pleasure we welcome the issue of 
Part IV. of the ‘Ootheca Wolleyana,’ which brings this 
excellent piece of work to its conclusion. 
Professor Newtou’s chief object in preparing these 
volumes was, we believe, to preserve the memory of his 
great personal friend and fellow-worker John Wolley, the 
