546 Recently published Ornithological Works. 
inner secondaries—in a mature drake of Somateria spectabilis; 
and Mr. Harry C. Oberholser distinguishes the Wren of the 
westernmost islands of the Aleutian chain as Anorthura 
meligera, sp. n. Mr. Ridgway’s description of five new sub¬ 
species of American Jays and three of Fringillidse may be 
left to the ‘ Zoological Record/ as may also those in the 
April number by Mr. S. N. Bishop of three new subspecies 
from Alaska, and by Mr. W r . E. Nelson of yet another new 
subspecies of Wild Turkey, followed by proposed changes in 
nomenclature—an evergreen subject. An important paper 
by Dr. J. Dwight, Jr., on “ The Moult of the North-American 
Tetraonidee (Quails, Partridges, and Grouse),” extends from 
p. 34 to p. 51, and in the April number from p. 143 
to p. 166, with two uncoloured plates. The Report of the 
Committee on the Protection of American Birds is, on the 
whole, encouraging, inasmuch as a general interest has 
evidently been awakened, and the promoters exhibit know¬ 
ledge as well as zeal; but the opposition encountered from 
force and falsehood is shown on p. 94 in sentences which 
deserve to be widely read and circulated. Among the 
General Notes, the record of Somateria stelleri in the Gulf 
of St. Lawrence deserves mention, as being the f ‘ furthest 
south ” occurrence of this species on the east coast of 
America. 
In the April number Mr. Herrick has an interesting 
article on the “ Care of Nest and Young,” with four photo¬ 
gravures of parent birds attending to sanitary requirements. 
Mr. Allan Brooks (son of our much-regretted M.B.O.U.) 
contributes some notes on the birds of British Columbia, and 
records the unparalleled occurrence of the Ivory Gull ( Pago - 
phila eburnea) at the southern extremity of Lake Okanagan, 
in about 48° N., and far inland. This species is almost un¬ 
known on the western side of America, and rare even at 
Point Barrow, so that it seems probable that the route taken 
by this individual was by the Mackenzie River or by the Great 
Slave and the Great Bear Lakes. The name here employed 
for the Ivory Gull is still Gavia alha } the editors having over¬ 
looked for the moment that by the 9th Supplement of the 
