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Recently published Ornithological Works. [Ibis, 
Hemiprocne , usually placed in a distinct family, the wing- 
claw was not found. 
Major Allan Brooks contributes a list of the Wading- 
birds of southern British Columbia. He believes that no 
group of birds has been so neglected by western ornitho¬ 
logists, and that there is still much to be learned about 
them. Mr. Grinnell, the Editor, argues that the life of the 
sea-birds must be a comparatively safe one, as most of 
the species only lay one or at the most two eggs, and seldom, 
if ever, rear a second brood, and if the numbers remain 
constant it shows that the struggle for existence cannot be 
very severe. 
Mr. Grinnell also describes a new subspecies of Brewer's 
Blackbird separating those from the Pacific slope from those 
of eastern North America under the name Euphagus cyano- 
cephalus minusculus. Mr. H. Oberholser has a new race of 
Shore-Lark, Otocoris alpestris sierras, breeding in the Sierra 
Nevada of California, and Mr. W. P. Taylor a new race of 
Ptarmigan, Lagopus leucurus ranierensis, from Mt. Ranier, 
in Washington State, where it lives at an elevation of from 
6000 to 8000 feet. 
Fauna och Flora. 
[Fauna och Flora. Popular Tidsirrift fiir Biologi. Utgifyeii af 
Einar Lonnberg. Yols. xiv. & xv. for 1919 & 1920, 6 nos. to each vol.] 
This excellent magazine, edited by our foreign member, 
Hr. Lonnberg, deals with zoology and botany in all its aspects, 
as its title implies ; but there is a good proportion of articles 
on bird-life, chiefly, of course, of local interest, such as rare 
occurrences and lists of birds of special districts in Sweden. 
There are also a good many articles of more general interest. 
Such is the series by Mr. L. G. Andersson containing an 
account of the travels of Carl Thun berg to South Africa 
in 1770-1779, ah article on bird-psychology by Mr. A. 
Adlersparre, and several by Hr. Lonnberg himself. Two of 
these deal with a large collection from Mongolia and north¬ 
west China which have recently reached the Stockholm 
Museum from Mr. P. J. G. Anderson, and another on 
