Recently published Ornithological Works. 367 
Names of Five Species not included in his previous Lists of New-England 
Birds. By T. M. Brewer. Proc. Boston Soc. N. H. xx. p. 263.] 
In this paper Dr. Brewer, whose untimely death we have 
recently chronicled, gives supplementary notes to his former 
paper on the birds of New England (Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. 
Hist. xix. p. 301, 1878), and records the occurrence of 5 species 
not included in the previous list. The most remarkable 
discovery noticed is that of the existence in Maine and 
Vermont of colonies of Lanius ludovicianus, hitherto regarded 
as an extreme southern species. 
50. Buller on Kudynamis taitensis. 
[ Remarks on the Long-tailed Cuckoo (Zudynamis taitensis). By Walter 
L. Buller. Trans. N.-Zealand Inst. xi. p. 353. | 
Dr. Buller remarks on the similarity of plumage between 
Eudynamis taitensis of New Zealand and Accipiter cooperi of 
North America. 
51. Buller on a Species of Lestris. 
[Remarks on a Species of Zestris inhabiting our Seas. By Walter L. 
Buller. Trans, N.-Zealand Inst. xi. p. 855. ] 
Dr. Buller discusses the question to what species the 
smaller Skua of New Zealand is to be referred. In his 
‘Birds of New Zealand’ Dr. Buller called it Stercorarius 
parasiticus, t. e. Buffon’s Skua, while Mr. Howard Saunders, 
in his well-known review of the group (P. Z.S. 1876), re- 
ferred it to S. crepidatus (Richardson’s Skua). Dr. Buller 
gives reasons why it cannot be either of these species. It is, 
however, apparently only a straggler in New Zealand, being 
only known to have occurred there four times. 
52. Buller on Larus bulleri. 
[Note on Mr. Howard Saunders’s Review of the Laringze, or Gulls. By 
Walter L. Buller. Trans. N.-Zealand Inst. xi. p. 359. | 
Dr. Buller gives his reason for assenting to Mr. Howard 
Saunders’s conclusion that the Black-billed Gull of New 
Zealand must stand as Larus bulleri. 
