68G Recently published Ornithological Works. 
of the birds of every part of Australia, and we are expecting 
the publication of two works on this subject. Mr. North now 
describes the nests and eggs of the Drop-marked Bower-bird 
(Chlamydodera guttata) and of five other species of which the 
eggs were not previously known. It is stated that figures of 
all these eggs will be given in the second edition of f The 
Descriptive Catalogue of the Nests and Eggs of Australian 
Birds 9 now in the press. 
123. Oberholser on Birds from the Santa Barbara Islands. 
[Notes on some Birds from Santa Barbara Islands, California. By 
Harry C. Oberholser. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus, xxii. p. 229.] 
This is a complete list, with various critical notes, of the 
26 species of birds obtained in the summer of 1892 by 
Mr. C. P. Streator, during an expedition to the Santa Barbara 
Islands, off the coast of Califormia. The new forms 39 have 
been already described, but it would have been better to 
have added references to the descriptions, which is not always 
done. Most of the peculiar “forms” are treated as only 
subspecifically different, but Aphelucoma insularis is pro¬ 
nounced to be quite distinct from “ both of its mainland 
relatives.” A few general remarks on the avifauna as a whole 
would have made this paper much more interesting. 
124. Oberholser on Abbott 1 s Collections in Central Asia . 
[Notes on Birds collected by Doctor W. L. Abbott in Central Asia. 
By Harry C. Oberholser. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 205.] 
Mr. Oberholser catalogues the collection of birds made by 
the energetic American traveller Dr. W. L. Abbott in Kash¬ 
mir and Ladak in 1895 and 1897 and presented to the U.S. 
National Museum. It contains 142 specimens, which are 
referred to 62 species. Mr. Oberholser proposes to separate 
a larger form of Totanus calidris , of w r hich 4 specimens were 
obtained in Ladak, as Totanus totanus eurhinus , but we doubt 
much whether a subspecies ought to be based on so small a 
number of individuals. He likewise wishes to alter the 
name Saocicola montana Gould to S. oreophila, because Koch 
