644 Recently published Ornithological Works. 
piece of work before his final retirement from Pard and 
return to Europe, which we have already announced *. 
98. Grinnell on the Birds of the Santa Barbara Islands. 
[Report on the Birds recorded during a Visit to the Islands of Santa 
Barbara, San Nicolas, and San Clemente in the Spring of 1897. By 
Joseph Grinnell. Pasadena, California, August 1897. 26 pp.] 
In some remarks on a paper of Dr. Mearns (see above, 
p. 498) it was mentioned that we had never seen the memoir 
of which the title is given above. The author has now 
kindly supplied the want so expressed by sending us a copy 
of it, for which we offer him our best thanks. 
Mr. Grinnell (now, we believe, Editor of ‘The Condor’) 
was the leader of a scientific expedition sent out by the 
Pasadena Academy of Sciences, in 1897, to explore the 
Santa Barbara group, and the present paper contains 
the results arrived at, so far as regards the birds met with 
on the three above-mentioned islands, which lie from 30 to 
60 miles off the coast of Southern California. During the 
expedition 450 bird-skins and many eggs were collected. 
On Santa Barbara 14 species of land-birds were observed, 
on San Nicolas 9, and on San Clemente 31. The list of 
water-birds contains the names of 24 species. Good field- 
notes are given. 
The Avifauna of the Santa Barbara group is purely 
Californian, except in the case of four or five possibly 
distinguishable forms which have been raised to the rank 
of ‘‘ subspecies.” 
99. Pycraft on the Anatomy of the Penguins. 
[On some Points in the Anatomy of the Emperor and Adélie Penguins. 
By W. P. Pycraft. Nat. Hist. of the National Antarctic Expedition, 
vol. ii. London, 1907. ] 
The authorities of the British Musenm did well to place 
the specimens of the nestlings and embryos of the Penguins 
collected during the National Antarctic Expedition in the 
hands of Mr. Pycraft. Though several excellent memoirs 
* See above, p. 511. 
