Recently published Ornithological Works. 375 
XXVII.— Notices of recent Ornithotogical Publications. 
(Continued from p. 198.) 
35. Streets on the Natural History of the Hawaiian and 
Fanning Islands and Lower California. 
[Contributions to tbe Natural History of tbe Hawaiian and Fanning 
Islands and Lower California. By Thomas H. Streets, M.D. Bull. U.S. 
Nat. Mus. No. 7.] 
The collections which form the subject of this paper were 
made during a surveying cruise in the North Pacific by the 
U.S. S. ^ Portsmouth.^ The most interesting portion of the 
part relating to the Birds is that which treats of birds of 
the Fanning Islands, a small group situated to the southward 
of the Sandwich Islands, and of which, ornithologically speak¬ 
ing, little was previously known. It was here Dr. Streets 
obtained Coriphilus kuhli^, the locality of which was previously 
undetermined; and here, too, he obtained the Gadwall recently 
described as Chaulelasmus couesi-\. A Petrel obtained on 
Christmas Island also appears to be neWj and is here called 
Puffinus nativitatis. The other species mentioned are mostly 
from Lower California and the Sandwich Islands, and, though 
of interest, do not call for any special comment on our part. 
36. Prjevalsky^s Expedition to Lob-nor. 
[Reise des Russiscben Generalstabs-Obersten N. B. Przewalsky von 
Kuldscba uber den Tbian-Schan an den Lob-Nor und Altyn-Tag, 1876 
und 1877. XJebersetzung des an die k. russ. geograpbische Gesellscbaft 
in St. Petersbourg gericbteten offiziellen Bericbtes von Przewalsky, D. D. 
Kuldscba 18. August, 1877. Petermann’s Mittbeilungen, Erganzungsbeft 
No. 35.] 
In this memoir will be found a preliminary account of the 
distinguished Bussian traveller Prjevalsky^s last expedition 
to the southern confines of the great Gobi desert in 1876-77. 
There are many zoological remarks. A list is given of the 
birds (48) found wintering on the Tarim, which runs into 
Lob-nor. Two new species, Podoces tarimensis and Rhopo- 
philus deserti, are mentioned, but not described. An ac- 
Cf Sclater, P. Z. S. 1876, p. 421. 
+ (y. abis,’1877, p. 242. 
