402 THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE LtNNEAN SOCIETY 



I have been unable to procure a copy, or any report, of the 

 Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute, but T believe that 

 eight volumes of their Transactions have been published, and that 

 the ninth is promised very shortly. 



Among foreign publications the following relate, more or less, 

 to Australia : — 



In the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London — 



Letters from Signor L. D'Albertis, C.M.Z.S., giving some 



account of sevei-al Excursions into Southern New Guinea. 

 On the Habits of the Fishes of the genus Antennarius. By 



the Rev. S. J. Whitmee, of Samoa, C.M.Z.S. 

 A Monograph of the genus Taphozous, Geoff. By G. E. 



Dobson, M.A., M.B., F.L.S., &c. 

 Notes on the Fruit Pigeons of the genus Chrysmia. By 



Otto Finsch, C.M.Z.S. 

 List of Birds met with in North-Eastern Queensland, chiefly 



at Rockingham Bay. By E. Pierson Ramsay, F.L.S. 

 Description of the Eggs and Young of Rall'ma tricolor, 



from Rockingham Bay By E. Pierson Ramsay, F.L.S. 

 On a Collection of Butterflies from the New Hebrides and 



Loyalty Islands, with descriptions of new species. By 



Arthur G. Butler, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. 

 On a small Collection of Butterflies from Fiji. By Arthur 



G. Butler, F.L.S., F.Z.S., <fcc. 

 On a new species of Crown Pigeon. By Otto Finsch, 



Ph. D., C.M.Z.S. 

 Notice of the twenty-second of his series of Memoirs on the 



extinct Birds of the genus Dinornis. By Professor 



Owen, C.B., F.R.S., &c. 

 On Pristorhamphus versieri, a new genus and species of Bird 



from the Arfak Mountains, New Guinea. By Otto 



Finsch, Ph. D., C.M.Z.S. 



