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in one volume 4to (1064 pp.), and with seventy-five plates of 

 hitherto unfigured species. We understand that the first volume 

 of Dr. Brewer's work on N. American Oology will also be ready 

 very shortly. Mr. J. W. Audubon also announces the republica- 

 tion, by subscription, of his father's celebrated and gigantic work 

 on the Birds of North America. It will be issued in forty-four 

 Numbers, of ten plates each, at ten dollars per Number, so that 

 the cost of the new work will only amount to half of that of the 

 original. A copy of the first part may be seen at Messrs. 

 Triibuer' s. 



At Stevens's Auction- rooms, on April 2nd, a skin of the new 

 Cassowary {Casuarius bennettii) was sold for ifilO to a London 

 dealer. This bird, which was shipped from Sydney for England 

 in good health, was accidentally killed during the voyage. It 

 has since, we are happy to say, passed into the collection of the 

 British Museum. The arrival of a fresh pair of these same 

 birds, which were sent off from Sydney in February last as a 

 present to the Zoological Society by Dr. Bennett, may shortly 

 be expected. 



A sale of eggs obtained by Mr. Wolley's collectors in Lap- 

 land, chiefly in the year 1858, took place at the same Auction- 

 rooms on March 8th. The three eggs that fetched the highest 

 prices were those of the Smew [Mergus albellus) — out of the nest 

 spoken of in Number L of ' The Ibis' — £^ 5s. ; the Bar-tailed 

 Godwit {Limosa rufa), j64 8s. ; and the Buffon's Skua {Lestris 

 parasiticus), £4. Of the latter egg, Mr. Wolley remarks, in a 

 letter, — " This is a very difficult egg to get, because it seems 

 doubtful whether the bird breeds at all upon the coast, though 

 Richardson's Skua does so in plenty, all round the North Cape, 

 and down the Russian coast." The eggs of the Waxwing [Am- 

 pelis garrula), of which there were nine in the sale, averaged 

 abovit £'6 each. The Pine-Grosbeaks' {Strobilophaga enucleator) 

 sold for j62 2s. There were likewise in the catalogue eggs of 

 the Spotted Redshank {Tetanus fuscus), Lapp Owl {Stria: lap- 

 ponica), Siberian Jay {Perisoreus infaustus), Siberian Tit {Parus 

 sibiricus), and the Anser Jinmarchicus of Gunner — all first disco- 

 vered by Mr. Wolley. 



