Recently published Ornithological Works. 91 
Mr. Reischek, who had previously had seven years' expe¬ 
rience in New-Zealand ornithology, made an adventurous 
expedition in April 1884 to Dusky Sound and the adjoining 
“ Alps." He gives us some interesting notes on the birds met 
with, such as Apteryx australis (which he found breeding, 
incubation being performed by the male), A. oweni (also found 
breeding), Eudyptes pachyrhynchus , and String ops habro - 
ptilus. The last named is purely nocturnal in its habits; the 
young are very fat and “ delicious food when roasted in the 
camp-oven." 
23. Ridgway on certain Dendroecse. 
[A Review of the American “ Golden Warblers.” By Robert Ridg¬ 
way. Proc. TJ.S. Nat. Mils. 1885, p. 348.] 
This is a useful synopsis of the difficult group of Dendrcecce * 
allied to D. (estiva , of which the author recognizes seven 
species, besides subspecies. A new subspecies is D. bryanti 
castaneiceps from Western Mexico. 
24. Ridgway on the Nomenclature of some North-American 
Birds. 
[Some emended Names of North-American Birds. By Robert Ridgway. 
Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 1885, p. 354.] 
Mr. Ridgway gives a list of 77 names of North-American 
birds, which represent new or hitherto unpublished combi¬ 
nations," and have been adopted by the Committee on Clas¬ 
sification and Nomenclature of the American Ornithologists' 
Union, together with their previously employed equivalents. 
One of them, Callipepla californica vallicolaf designating 
the form of C. calif ornica from the interior valleys of Cali¬ 
fornia, is now proposed for the first time, the Lophortyx 
californicus brunnescens (Ridgw. Pr. Biol. Soc. Washington, 
ii. p. 94) being a synonym of the typical form, which is 
confined to the western side of the coast-range. 
* Mr. Ridgway writes Bendroica . But if, as we believe, tbe derivation 
of this name is bivbpov and olkos or oIkIco, the term should be written 
Dendroeca. 
