Recently published Ornithological Works. 485 



(5) "^Ou the Egg of the Huia {Heteralocha acutirostris) ," 

 by the same, ibid. p. 212. 



(6) '' On the Species forming the Genus Ocydromus, a 

 peculiar group of brevipennate Rails/^ by the same, ibid. 

 p. 213. 



(7) " Notice of the Occurrence of the Shy Albatross {Dio- 

 medea cauta) in the North Island/^ by the same, ibid. p. 217, 



(8) ''On the Addition of the Red-tailed Tropic-bird {Phae- 

 thon rubricauda) to the Avifauna of New Zealand,'^ by the 

 same, ibid. p. 219. 



As will be seen by these titles. Dr. Buller is still working 

 away at the birds of New Zealand, and has recorded several 

 new additions to its avifauna. We are glad to find Nestor 

 meridionalis is not yet dying out, being " very abundant in the 

 Urewera country,^^ where an " expert bird-catcher Avill some- 

 times bag as many as 300 in the course of the day."" Zos- 

 ierops lateralis, which only arrived in New Zealand in 1856, 

 now " swarms all over the country.'^ Other birds, however, 

 such as Anthrornis melanura and Miro longipes, are fast 

 disappearing. As regards Ocydromus, Buller holds to his 

 opinion that there are only three well-marked species in New 

 Zealand, namely, 0. earli of the North Island, and O. aus- 

 tralis and 0. fuscus of the South Island, of the latter of 

 which he considers 0. finschi to be the young. 



79. Reed on the Zoology of the Province of Colchagua. 



[Apuntes de la Zoologia de la Hacienda de Cauquenes, Provincia de 

 Colchagua, por Edwyn C. Reed. 8vo. Santiago de Chile : 1877.] 



Mr. Reed, who has recently left the Museum of Santiago, 

 and become Director of the Museum and Professor of Zoology 

 in the Lyceum of Valparaiso, gives in this paper a list, with 

 critical remarks, of the mammals and birds which he has met 

 with within the limits of the extensive Hacienda of Cau- 

 quenes, in the province of Colchagua, Chili, belonging to the 

 brothers Soto. The collection was made for the Chilian In- 

 ternational Expozition of 1875, and has now been deposited 

 in the Banos de Cauquenes. Most of the species included 

 are well-known inhabitants of Chili. Scytalopus albifrons 



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