370 Recently published Ornithological Works. 
of migrants at Bockabill by Mr. Barrington, and of Stock 
Doves in Wexford by Major Barrett-Hamilton. 
The November number is devoted to a full account of the 
Dublin Meeting of the British Association. 
37. McGregor on Philippine Birds. 
[Notes on a Collection of Birds from Siquijor, Philippine Islands. 
By Richard C. McGregor. Philipp. Journ. of Science, iii. no. 6, Sept. 
1908.] 
Our American friends continue their excellent work in 
the Philippines. The establishment of a 66 Biological 
Laboratory ” and of a 44 Journal of Science” so soon after 
their arrival on the scene are feats that may well put other 
Governments to shame. As regards Birds at least they 
have an engrossing subject before them. The preparation 
of an 4 Avifauna Philippinensis/ and the correct working 
out of the numerous representative species in the different 
islands, will be a task of much labour but of intense 
interest. 
In the present paper, Mr. McGregor, who is now the 
leading ornithologist at Manila, gives us an account of a 
collection from the coral rock of Siquijor, a little island 
lying close to Negros, and apparently comparatively recently 
provided with bird-life. Three species, however, have had 
time to develop into well-marked representatives—namely, 
Dicceum besti, Loriculus siquijor ensis, and Iole siquijorensis. 
Mr. McGregor enumerates 87 species from this island, 
thus adding 9 to the list given by Worcester and Bourns in 
1898*. Among these is Acanthopneuste borealis (Blasius), 
of which two specimens were obtained. 
38. Mair’s ‘ Mackenzie Basin. 3 
[Through the Mackenzie Basin, a Narrative of the Athabasca and 
Peace River Treaty Expedition of 1899, and Notes on the Birds and 
Mammals of Northern Canada, by Roderick MacFarlane. 1 vol., 8vo. 
494 pp. London : Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., 1908.] 
This volume contains in the first place the narrative of an 
expedition sent into the 44 Great Mackenzie Basin” in 1899, 
* Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xx. p. 564. 
