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The literature relating to the above-named species is noticed 

 at considerable length, and details are given of a specimen 

 which has recently come to light in Brunswick. In an 

 alphabetical list Prof. Blasius enumerates the examples the 

 existence of which is known to him, 74 in number. To these 

 may be added a hitherto unrecorded specimen belonging to the 

 Duke of Roxburghe, at Floors Castle, described and exhibited 

 before the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh on the 18th 

 of April 1883. The eggs of the Great Auk are also noticed. 



27. Collett on three additions to the Norwegian Avifauna. 



[^Ardetta mimita (Linn.), Sterna ^cantiaca, Gmel., og Larus minutus, 

 Pall., nye for Norges Fauna. Af Robert Collett. Vid.-Selsk. Forh. 

 1883, no. 15.] 



Examples of Ardetta minuta, Sterna cantiaca, and Larus 

 minutus occurred in Norway, the first two in July 1883, and 

 the last-named in October 1882, and are now in the Uni- 

 versity Museum of Copenhagen. Full particulars are given 

 by Mr. Collett. 



28. Coppinger's Cruise of the 'Alert.* 



[Cruise of the 'Alert.' Four Years in Patagonian, Polynesian, and 

 Mascarene Waters. (1878-82.) By R. W. Coppinger, M.D., Staff- 

 Surgeon Royal Navy, C.M.Z.S. London : 1883, 1 vol. 8vo.] 



No naturalist should omit to look through Dr. Coppinger's 

 narrative of the Cruise of the ' Alert,' which is full of in- 

 teresting information on every branch of natural history. 

 Most of the time was spent in Patagonian waters ; but many 

 details are also given about the seldom-visited coral-reefs 

 between the Seychelles and Madagascar, which were taken on 

 the return home. 



The ornithologist will read with pleasure the many episodes 

 on bird-life interspersed throughout the volume, which relate 

 to both land and marine species (see pp. 56, 87, 106, 207, 

 224, and 238) . The supposed species of Upucerthia, of which 

 the very curious burrowing habits are described at p. 142, is, 

 we suppose, Geositta cunicularia. It would be desirable, 



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