AVES. 281 



natural apprehension of the Bird's habit or general bearing, and for rigid 

 elaborateness of detail are even to be preferred to those of Gould. In this 

 Part are figured, Falco timmnculus japonicus, Astur gularis, Mihus mclano- 

 tis, Eutcr vulyaris japonicus, Of us semitorqves, Otus scops japonicus, Hirundo 

 alpestris japonica, Caprimulgus jotaka, Muscicapa Jiylocharis. 



Avium conspectus quse in Republica Peruana reperiuntur 

 et plerreque observatze vel collects sunt in itinere a Dr. J. 

 J. de Tschudi; requires no further notice than that con- 

 tained in our Archives, S. 262. 



The birds brought by Bridges from Chili have been 

 determined by Fraser, and a list of them, provided with 

 remarks, cornrrmnicated in Ann. Nat. Hist, xiii, p. 498. 



A work upon the New Zealand Birds has been begun by 

 G. R. Gray, in the Zoology of the Voyage of H. M. S. 

 Erebus and Terror. Two Parts have appeared, the second of 

 which has the text of the first once again unworked ; the 

 figures are excellent. Of Gould's work, the Birds of 

 Australia, Nos. 14, 15, 16, and 17, have appeared during 

 the year 1844. 



The Zoological Atlas of Dupetit-Thouars Voy. autour du 

 Monde sur la Fregate Venus, contains up to the present 

 time, in its six Parts, figures of the following Birds : Part 

 1st. Grail aria squamigera, tab. 3, Grallaria guatimalensis, 

 tab. 4, Pyrgita biarcuata, tab. 6, Columbi-Gallina gallopa- 

 goensis, tab. 8, Stolida cinerea, tab. 9. Part 2d. Hemig- 

 nathus olivaceus, tab. 1, Ornismya Costa, tab. 2, Tanagra 

 ruficervix and labradorides, tab. 5, Columba Dupetit-Thouarsii, 

 tab. 7, Larus furcatus, tab. 10. 



List of the specimens of Birds in the British Museum. 

 Part 1; Accipitres, 1844, 58 pages, 8vo. Part 3; Gal- 

 linse, Grallse, and Anseres, 1844, 209 pages, 8vo. 



It is merely these two divisions that have reached us, giving evidence of 

 the great wealth of the British Museum, and affording goodly service to its 

 visitors. The arrangement of this list is very suitable to its purpose, since 

 the diversities of age, sex, and season, as also the habitats, and the occa- 

 sional donors of the specimens are indicated. 



I am acquainted with but few contributions to the know- 

 ledge of fossil bird-bones. 



