740 Recently published Ornithological Works . 
on the Kolyma River in Siberia. The discovery by him of 
the eggs of Rhodostethia rosea is narrated—though not for the 
first time—in this part of Mr. Dresser's book, and the true 
facts are given concerning Numenius tenuirostris and its 
breeding-range; while an error of Middendorff's with regard 
to Tringites rujescens is corrected. 
There is much of interest in the British Birds included in 
this instalment, and we notice that Mr. Dresser has safe¬ 
guarded himself in the matter of the supposed Wood-Sand¬ 
piper's eggs from Elgin, which were certainly wrongly 
identified (supra, p. 730). In the case of the Roseate Tern, 
however, he is too sceptical, as the eggs were certainly taken 
on one occasion at least in Norfolk (coll. A. Newton), when 
the parents were carefully identified. Again he might 
have extended the breeding-range of the Sandwich Tern on 
the Scottish mainland to Sutherland, whence the late T. E. 
Buckley procured a single egg. Perhaps he considers such 
an exceptional case better omitted. We cannot complain, on 
the other hand, of his statement that the Common Gull does 
not nest to the south of the Border-land, though we should 
have wished him to have stated that the record from St. Abb's 
Head by Hepburn was undoubtedly erroneous, and that the 
bird is not found on the East Coast of Scotland in general. 
Bat he is decidedly mistaken in doubting whether the 
Arctic Skua breeds in Caithness—there is, or was a few 
years ago, at least one fair-sized colony there. 
The plates of this book are excellent, and, though dark 
eggs are difficult to photograph successfully, the results are 
most satisfactory. 
84. Eaton on the. Birds of New York. 
[New York State Museum. Memoir 12. Birds of New York. By 
Eton Howard Eaton. Part I. 1 vol., 4to. Albany, 1910.] 
This is the first volume of a new history of the birds of the 
State of New York, prepared by Mr. E. How r ard Eaton, who, 
we are assured, is an experienced student of the subject. It 
is accompanied by 42 coloured plates, which, together with 
500 pages of letterpress, make a somewhat ponderous 
