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singular superciliary, combs and bare inflatable pouches on each 

 side of the neck to the admiring gaze of the hen. The other 

 plate shows the attitudes assumed by the males of several other 

 species of birds. These birds were most of them studied in the 

 Gardens of the Zoological Society of London. 



2. J')^eO?^/-Parro/ or iTff^jo (Strigops habroptilus). Student, 

 1870, pp. 492-499, with one coloured Plate. 



Relates chiefly to the specimen for some time deposited in 

 the Gardens of the Zoological Society by Mr. Sale. Notes by 

 different observers of this species, both in a wild state and in 

 confinement, are added. 



Wright, Charles. 



Fourth Appendix to a List of Birds observed in Malta and Gozo. 

 Ibis, 1870, pp. 488-493. 



One species, Sterna caspia, is added to the list of Maltese 

 birds, raising the number to 268. The rest of the paper is de- 

 voted to notes on species of rare and casual occurrence. 



WyatTj Claude, W. 



Notes on the Birds of the Peninsula of Sinai. Ibis, 1870, 

 pp. 1-18. 



The first portion of this paper (pp. 1-10) is devoted to a 

 description of the author's journey, with special reference to 

 Ornithology. The rest records the species met with, together 

 with those obtained by Mr. Holland during former visits to the 

 Peninsula of Sinai. The names of 84 species are given, toge- 

 ther with the localities -where they were met with. 



Summary. 



The following summary of the foregoing article will give some 

 idea of the progress of ornithological science during the year 

 1870. 



The number of authors whose names are mentioned above is 

 164, whilst the number of separate works, papers in scientific 

 journals, proceedings, and transactions, as well as letters, notices, 

 and reviews, reaches 316. The number of new generic names 



