190 Recently published Ornithological Works. 
bound from New York, and more than 600 miles from land, 
scattered flocks of Sandpipers were observed, all flying 
strongly, nor swerving from tbeir course in any way, and 
in a S.E. by E. direction ! This, if persisted in, would have 
landed them in Africa; but perhaps the weather, which was 
somewhat foggy, may have been responsible for this erratic 
proceeding in the month of May. 
32. Barnes on the Birds of the Bombay Presidency. 
[Handbook to the Birds of the Bombay Presidency. Bj Lieut. H. 
Edwin Barnes, D.A.O. 8vo. Calcutta : 1885.] 
Mr. Barnes’s Handbook is a concentration into one volume 
of “ Jerdon,” or at least of such portions of it as relate 
to the Birds of the Bombay Presidency. Its object is to place 
within the reach of all the author’s fellow-workers in that part 
of India “ a book that will enable them to identify any bird 
they may meet with.” This object, we think, Mr. Barnes 
has carried out successfully, although it is' obvious that by 
following so closely the method and arrangement of a book 
that was published so many years ago he has, in many cases, 
sacrificed correctness to convenience. Mr. Barnes has been 
a careful observer of bird-life during his twenty years’ re¬ 
sidence in India, and his notes on this branch of his subject 
may be confidently relied upon. 
33. Beckham on some Kentucky Birds. 
[List of the Birds of Nelson County. By Charles Wickliffe Beckham. 
Kentucky Geol. Surv. September 1885.] 
In 1883 Mr. Beckham published a list of the birds of 
Nelson County, Kentucky, in the Journal of the Cincinnati 
Society of Natural History. Upon this is based the present 
paper, which has been prepared to accompany a report on 
the geology of the district. The list contains the names of 
171 species. The accompanying observations were mostly 
made in the vicinity of Bardstown, which is situated “just 
on the western limit of the f Blue-grass Region,’ forty miles 
south-east of Louisville.” 
