Recently published Ornithological Works. 195 
The Grey-chested Paradise-bird is, it will be remembered, 
the magnificent species discovered by Mr. A. Goldie in the 
D’Entrecasteaux Islands, and first figured in this Journal 
for 1883, pi. viii. 
43. Lawrence on Birds from Yucatan . 
[Description of a new Species of Bird of the Genus Engyptila , with 
Notes on two Yucatan Birds. By George N. Lawrence. Ann. N. Y. 
Acad. Sci. iv. p. 271.] 
Mr. Lawrence describes a new Pigeon, from a specimen 
obtained by Mr. G. F. Gaumer in Yucatan, as Engyptila 
vinaceifulva, and states that it “ does not resemble any other 
member of the genus.” Mr. Lawrence takes this opportunity 
to vindicate the claims of his Leptoptila fulviventris , from the 
same country, to rank as a good species : Mr. Salvin (P. Z. S. 
1883, p, 434) could not distinguish it from Leptoptila albi- 
frons. Mr. Lawrence also gives further details concerning 
his Chcetura gaumeri, from three additional specimens received 
from Mr. Gaumer. 
44. Murdoch on the Birds of Point Barrow. 
[Report of the Expedition to Point Barrow, Alaska. By Lieut. P. H. 
Ray, U.S. Army. Birds by John Murdoch, A.M., Sergeant Signal Corps, 
U.S. Army, pp. 104-128 and 200. 4to. Washington : 1885.] 
This report contains details of exceptional interest re¬ 
specting the birds observed at the most north-western 
American Station, situated on the Arctic Sea in 71° 23' lat. 
N., and 156° 40' long. W. It is an Eskimo settlement, 
discovered during the voyage of H.M.S. f Blossom ’ in 1826, 
visited by Capts. Dease and Simpson of the Hudson’s Bay 
Company’s service, who determined the coast-line from the 
mouth of the Mackenzie River to Bering Sea, and was also 
the winter-quarters of H.M.S. f Plover’ in 1852-1854; but, 
with the exception of a note by the late Dr. Adams (P. Z. S. 
1859, p. 130), little was known of its fauna. Nearly all the 
birds and eggs collected by the American Expedition during 
their stay, from the autumn of 1881 to that of 1883, were 
obtained within a circle of fifteen miles from the station, in 
