204 Recently published Ornithological Works. 
Alexander,—for the investigation of the Fauna of the Islands 
of South-eastern Alaska, and to have been very successfully 
carried out. The Expedition obtained 532 birds and 33 sets 
of eggs, besides other objects, all of which have been 
presented by Miss Alexander to the “ Museum of Vertebrate 
Zoology.” The exact localities visited are fully described 
by Messrs. Stephens and Dixon and are shown on a map 
of the Sitkan district of Alaska. The birds collected are 
carefully described by INI r. Grinnell, the Editor of ‘The 
Condor/—a very competent authority on the Avifauna of 
the Western States,—and copious field-notes are furnished 
from the note-books of the Naturalists of the Expedition. 
Mr. Grinnell refers the 532 bird-skins to 99 species, 
amongst which he describes the following as new:— Lagopus 
alexandrce , L. dixoni, Buteo borealis alascensis , Picoides 
americanus fumipectus , Loxia curvirostra sitkensis, and Planes- 
ticus migratorius caurinus. The nomenclature and arrange¬ 
ment of the ‘ Check-list' are followed. 
14. La Touche on the Birds in the Shanghai Museum. 
[The Collection of Birds in the Shanghai Museum. By J. D. D. 
La Touche. North China Branch It. Asiatic Society, xi. p. 69 (1909).] 
The difficulty of keeping up a collection of birds in a 
tropical climate is very obvious, but that it may be overcome 
by well-applied energy we may see from Air. La Touche's 
report on the Shanghai Museum, of which Institution he has 
had charge for two years. He found it in a sad state from 
want of care, but has already renovated it to a great extent, 
and evidently intends to persevere in his good work. There 
is a mounted collection of Birds, now brought into good 
order, and containing 571 specimens of 359 species. The 
skin-collection contains 1120 specimens of 330 species. 
The total number of Chinese species represented at Shanghai 
is about 430. Among the mountain-birds of the province 
of Fohkien are examples of such rarities as Drymochares 
sinensis, Proparus guttaticollis, and Allot rius pallidus. 
There are also specimens of such little-known birds as 
