1SS4. 1 Recent J.itrrdtiirr. 38 



ZoHotricliia to ;i '•very well circumscribed group of purely Nearctic 

 species," and to exclude various Neotropical fornix which have been 

 referred to it. — J. A. A. 



Ridgway on the Pied Wagtails of Eastern Asia.* — Mr. Ridgway 

 believes that Dr. Stejneger's series of live skins collected at Bering 

 Island and in Kamtchatka prove conclusively that it is either only the 

 adult male in summer of Motacilla amiiyensis which has the "back black, 

 while the fully adult female is indistinguishable from M. ocularis, or 

 else that these two birds are identical ;" M. amiirensis being the adult male 

 and 71/. ocularis the adult female, or perhaps the winter plumage of both 

 sexes. Mr. Ridgway further suggests that Mr. Seebohm's M. hlakisfojii 

 may be merely the adult male of '71/. amnreiisis.' — J. A. A. 



Lawrence on New Species of American Birds. f — The species here 

 described are i. Chrysotis canifro7is, from the Island of Aruba, West 

 Indies; 2. Formicivora griseigula, from British Guiana; and 3. Sper- 

 tiiof/iila ftarva. from Tehuantepec City, Mexico. — ^J. A. A. 



Jouy on Birds collected in Japan. j — Mr. Jouy, in a paper of nearly 

 fiftj' pages, presents his observations made partly at Subashiri, twenty-five 

 miles due west from Yokohama, on the eastern slope of Fuji-Yama, the 

 highest mountain in Japan, and partly near Omachi, at the base of the 

 Tate-Yama Mountains, about one hundred and thirty miles northwest 

 from Yokohama. July and part of June were spent at Fuji-Yama; a 

 short time was passed at Chiusenji Lake, about the beginning of Septem- 

 ber; while the latter part of this month, October, November, and part of 

 December were devoted to the Tate-Yama. Very full and interesting field- 

 notes are given on about one hundred species, with bibliographical refer- 

 ences, and often descriptions of nests and eggs, and previously unde- 

 scribed immature phases of plumage. Mr. Jouy has evidently made good 

 use of his excellent opportunities, and the results of his work are well 

 presented. As already noted {atitea, p. loS), his collections were made 

 for the National Museum. — ^J. A. A. 



Publications Received. — Abbott, Charles C. A Naturalists' Rambles 

 about Home. Svo., pp. 485. New York. D. Appleton & Co., 1S84. 



Ballard, H. H. Hand-book of the St. Nicholas Agassiz Association. 

 8vo., pp. 116, iv. Lenox, Mass., 18S4. 



* On the Probable Identity of Motacilla ocularis Swinhoe and M. amurensis See- 

 bohm, with Remarks on an Allied supposed Species, M. blakistoni Seebohm. By 

 Robert Ridgway. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1883, pp. 144-147- Oct. 5, 1883. 



t Descriptions of New Species of Birds of the Genera Chrysotis, Formicivora, and 

 Spermophila. By George N. Lawrence. Ann. New York Acad. Sci., Vol. II, No. 12. 

 pp. 381-383, 1883. 



+ Ornithological Notes on Collections made in Japan from June to December, 18821 

 By Pierre Louis Jouy. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1883, pp. 273-318. Dec. 27, 1883. 



