95 Aves. 
System Atio. 
5831 
British Columbia : some now records ; 
Brooks, 189: a visit, io Nootka sound; 
Swarth, 1443 : fiold-notes on a collection 
of birds made in Vancouver Island ; 
Swarth, 1442 : Arquatella m. couesi in 
Vancouver Is., first record for Canada ; 
Taverner, 1453. 
Mackenzie : list of birds noticed on 
the Seton expedition of 1907 to Athabasca 
and Great Slave Lakes ; Seton & 
Prebble, 1358. 
Alaska. 
Alaska : field notes on the birds of the 
Aleutian Islands and Bering Sea ; Bent, 
112: n. subsp. Lagopus described ; 
Bent, 111 : also Swarth, 1444. 
Greenland. 
Greenland : notes on rare birds and on 
Ghaulclasmua streperus and Passerella 
ilinca new to that country ; Schi01er, 
1312 : two new records Turdua iliacua 
and Totanua totanus ; Gronberger, 550. 
OCEANS. 
Atlantic Ocean : birds observed on a 
voyage from Holland to South America ; 
Heum, 664 : n. spp. Prion , Megaloplerus ; 
Mathews, 917. 
Pacific Ocean : n. spp. Majaqueus, 
Macronectes, Pseudoprion, Thalassarclic , 
Gelochelidon ; Mathews, 917. 
Indian Ocean : n. spp. Puffmns , 
Macronectes, Prion, Pseudoprion , 
Thalassarclic, Thalassogeron, Gygis ; 
Mathews, 917 : also Oort, 1051. 
Antarctic Seas : n. sp. Pagodroma, 
Macronectes ; Mathews, 917. 
III.— SYSTEMATIC. 
The arrangement of Sharpe’s “ Handlist 
of birds ” is here used ; where generic 
names differ, the name in the Handlist 
is prefixed in square brackets. 
ORDER STRUTIIIONIFORMES. 
Struthio camclus, domestication and 
breeding in Algeria, Menegaux, Rev. 
Sci. Paris 50 (2. semest.J 1912 p. 44 : 
domestication in Madagascar, Schuler, 
Rev. fr. d’Orn. 2 p. 273. 
ORDER CASUARIIFORMES. 
Dromiceiu8 novachoUandiae u:ood- 
uardi , p. 175 N.W. Australia, D. n. 
rothschildi p. 175 S.W. Australia, 
subsp. n., D. spenceri nom. n. pro 
I), minor Spencer p. 176, Mathews. 
Nov. Zool. 18. 
Peroniata gen. n. for type Dromaius 
peroni, Rothschild, Mathews, Austr. 
Av. Rec. 1 p. 107. 
Casuarius casuarius jolinsonii, on the 
coloration of the head and neck, 
Mathews, Austral Av. Rec. 1 p. 66 
pi. i. — C. bennetti, die Verschiobung des 
Sternum8, Kotiie, SitzBer. Ges. natf. 
Freunde 1911 p. 384. — C. heysseri. 
sp. n. German New Guinea, with 
remarks and complete list of other 
species of the genus, Rothschild, Bull. 
B. 0. C. 29 p. 49. 
ORDER TINAMIFORMES. 
Tinamus latifrons , figured from 
Ecuador, Menegaux (see No. 939 p. 3 
pi. i). 
Crypturua aoui caucae subsp. n. 
Western Columbia, Chapman, Bull. Amer. 
Mus. N.H. 31 p. 141. 
Pliynchotus rufescens , on the histology 
of the uropygial gland, Paris, C. R. ass. 
fram?. avanc. sci. 40 p. 526. 
Nothura maculosa, characteristic 
features of the young, Grant, Ibis 1912 
p. 274 fig. 4. 
ORDER GALLIFORMES. 
British Game birds described and 
illustrated, Ogilvie - Grant, London 
1912 4to. 
The Game birds of South Africa 
figured and described, Horsbrugii, Lon- 
don 1912 4to. 
The Game birds of India, Finn, Cal- 
cutta 1911 8vo. 
Pheasants and how to rear them in 
the covert or aviary, the principal species 
figured and their diseases, Barton, Lon- 
don 1912 8vo. 
Megapodiu8 duperreyi mclvillenais 
subsp. n. Melville Is. N. Australia, 
Mathews, Austral. Av. Rec. 1 p. 26. 
Lcipoa ocellata rosinae subsp. n. 
S. Australia, Mathews, Nov. Zool. 18 
p. 177, 
