208 Recent Ornithological Publications. 
Chinese names, which the translator has done his best to iden¬ 
tify with described species ; but we hope that the good example 
thus set will induce some other equally profound Sinologue to 
make us acquainted with the ornithological authors of the 
Celestial Empire. 
In the ‘ Proceedings of the Royal Artillery Institution’ of 
Woolwich for 1865 (vol. iv. pp. 337-339) Mr. Lord publishes a 
Catalogue of the Birds’ Nests and Eggs collected by him when 
naturalist to the British North American Boundary Commission, 
to which a few notes are appended. We should be sorry to 
appear even to covet our neighbour’s goods, and it would be 
ungenerous to grudge anything to the rising Museum at Wool¬ 
wich, which is so warmly supported by “ The Royal Regiment,” 
and so carefully looked after by its active curator, our corre¬ 
spondent, Mr. Whitely; but, as a matter of principle, we think 
we may fairly object to any specimens collected by a Govern¬ 
ment Expedition—as we imagine that of the Boundary Com¬ 
mission was—being allowed to go elsewhere than to the National 
Collection. The eggs of Corvus caurinus Mr. Lord believes he 
was the first to bring home ; and a rather curious fact is men¬ 
tioned by him, that Numenius longirostris seldom lays more 
than two eggs. 
A note by Mr. Richard Taylor, communicated to the March 
number of the ‘ Annals and Magazine of Natural History,’ has 
no small interest in its bearing on the extension of the range of 
species, a subject about which so little is at present known. 
The author states that a bird has lately made its appearance at 
Wanganaui in New Zealand, and is now abundant there, doing 
good service in freeing the fruit-trees from the “ American 
blight.” A specimen sent to the British Museum proves the 
“ welcome little*stranger ” to be the Zosterops dorsalis of Gould, 
Z. ccerulescens (Lath.), hitherto only known as an inhabitant of 
Tasmania, South Australia, and New South Wales. Mr. Taylor 
says that “ it stays the winter with us, and, we suppose, passes 
the summer at Taupo.” 
