Recently published Ornithological Works. 159 



Other faunal papers are by A. H. Norton (pp. 574-576) 

 on rare birds in Maine; H. Thurston and H. S. Boyle 

 (pp. 542-545) on the birds of Long- Island; H. S. Hathaway 

 (pp. 545-558) on birds from Rhode Island ; and F. M. 

 Western (pp. 418-421) on birds from the highlands of 

 N. Carolina. 



2. Faunal — Outside the United States. 



B. W. Evermann (pp. 15-18) records eighteen birds new 

 to the Pribiloff Islands in Behring Sea; three of these, the 

 Tufted Duck^ the European Pochard, and Tengmalm's Owl 

 are new additions to the North American fauna. These 

 birds were collected and many observations made by 

 Dr. Walter L. Hahn, who was appointed naturalist to the 

 fur-seal service of the American Bureau of Fisheries in 1910, 

 and who lost his life the following year by exposure in the 

 ice-cold water of a lagoon, owing to the capsizing of a boat. 

 He was succeeded by M. C. Marsh, who has continued the 

 ornithological observations. 



Dr. C. W. Townsend contributes some further notes on 

 Labrador birds (pp. 1-10_, pis. i.-ii.), and complains bitterly 

 of the increasing scarcity of the sea-birds along the coasts. 



J. H. Fleming, Col.M.B.O.U. (pp. 225-228) has some 

 notes on the birds round Toronto, supplementary to his 

 paper in the ' Auk ' for 1906 and 1907. 



L. L. Jewel; one of the engineers of the Panama Canal 

 (pp. 422-429), writes interestingly on the North American 

 migrants he has noticed in the neighbourhood of the Gati'in 

 dam, and calls special attention to the very shoi't time which 

 some of the northern birds are absent from the tropics. 

 The Spotted Sandpiper (Actitis macularia) has been recorded 

 for every month in the year except May and June, and the 

 Yellow Warbler (Dendroica ee. asiivd) every month except 

 June and July. 



J. L. Peters (pp. 367-380) spent four months (Jan.-Apl. 

 1912) on the Hondo river, the frontier between British 

 Honduras and Yucatan, collecting for the Harvard Museum. 

 Among the 132 species obtained he finds four new subspecies 

 of the genera Rnpor7iis, Ortalis, Melopelia, and Cajdinalis. 



