756 Recently published Ornithological Works. 
consist of six widely separated groups, tlie most northerly 
being “ The Snares/'’ about 65 miles south o£ Stewart Island. 
Next to The Snares come the Auckland Islands, with two 
larger islands (Auckland Island and Adam’s Island) and 
several smaller. Beyond them, about 140 miles to the south¬ 
east, lies Campbell Island, and 400 miles E.N.E. from the 
latter are the Antipodes Island*, containing one larger 
island and seven smaller. The fifth group, the “ Bounty 
Islands,” lie about ninety miles north of the t( Antipodes.” 
The five groups above mentioned all stand upon the com¬ 
paratively shallow oceanic plateau which surrounds New 
Zealand ; but the sixth and last, Macquarie Island, with its 
satellites, is outside this plateau, and about 570 miles S.W. 
of Stewart Island. 
During the expedition to the Subantarctic Islands, of 
which this volume gives us an account, it appears to have been 
one of the rules that “ neither birds nor their eggs were to 
be taken.” The report on this part of the subject is, there¬ 
fore, necessarily rather meagre, being confined to an enumera¬ 
tion of the species already recorded from the islands, together 
with notes on some of them which attracted the author’s 
special attention. 
The species mentioned are some 45 in number, mostly 
Petrels and other sea-birds, there being only 12 Passeres in 
the List. There are some useful figures introduced in the 
text, and, amongst others, illustrations of the nests and young 
of the two large Albatrosses, Diomedea exulans and D. regia. 
The former was found breeding on the Auckland Islands, 
including the western end of Adam’s Island, the eastern end 
of that island being occupied by D. regia. 
A sharp look-out was kept along the shores of the Auckland 
Islands for the scarce Southern Merganser (JVLergus australis ), 
but it was not met with. 
106. The 4 Zoological Record 3 of 1908. 
[Zoological Record. Vol. xlv. 1908. Aves, by R. Bowdler Sharpe, 
LL.D. London : Harrison and Sons. Price 6s. December, 1909.] 
The ‘Zoological Record’ of 1908, being the forty-fifth 
