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IX. Notices of Recent Ornithological Publications : — 



1. Emjlish: — Tristram's 'Land of Israel;' Gould's 'Hand- 

 book to the Birds of Australia ; ' Travers on the Birds of the 

 Chatham Islands Ill 



2. German: — Yon Pelzeln on the Ornithology of the 'Novara' 

 Voyage ; Seidensachcr on the Birds of Cilli 115 



3. Dutch : — Harting on the Episternal Apparatus of Birds ; 

 Schlegcl on the Kingfishers of the Dutch Indies; Schlegel's 

 'Dierentuin' 116 



4. liussian: — Hadde's ' Birds of South-eastern Siberia ' . . 118 



5. American : — Lawrence on Birds of Panama ; Bryant's 

 Papers in the Boston ' Proceedings ' 119 



X. Letters, Announcements, &c. : — 



Letters from Messrs. Swinhoe, Howard Saunders, E. P. 

 Ilamsay, Whitely, and J. H. Gurney. Interesting Discovery 

 of Bones of Didus ineptus in Mauritius 121 



Number VI., April. 



XI. A Voice on Ornithology from Formosa. By Eobert 

 Swinhoe, Her Majesty's Consul, F.Z.S., &c. (Plate V.) . . 129 



XII. On a New Genus of African Birds. By Gustav 

 Hartlaub, M.D., For. Mem. Z.S., &c. (Plate VI.) . . . .139 



XIII. Account of the late Discovery of Dodos' Remains in 



the Island of Mauritius. By George Clark 141 



XIV. On some Extinct Gigantic Birds of the Mascarene 

 Islands. By H. Schlegel, Director of the National Museum 



of the Netherlands, F.M.Z.S., &c 146 



