Recently published Ornithological Works. 103 



His remarks are more valuable, though we believe that the 

 statement that the sharp noise made by the '' Casse-noisette " 

 {Pipra gutturalis) is produced by the ''aid of its bill" is not 

 correct. 



12. De Vis on the Moa in Australia. 



[The Moa (Dwornis) in Australia. By C. W. De Vis, M.A. Proc. R, 

 Soc. Queensland, vol. i. p. 23, plates iii., iv.] 



A portion of a bird's femur, found among a collection of 

 bones from King^s Creek presented to the Queensland Museum 

 by Mr. J. Daniels, is referred by Mr. De Vis to a species of 

 Dinornis, which he proposes to call D. queenslandice (!). The 

 fragment consists of rather more than the upper third of a 

 left femur minus the upper part of the head and the trochan- 

 ter. It is in the " same peculiar state of mineralization as 

 the great majority of the Darling-Downs fossils.^' Figures 

 are given of this remarkable fossil, Avhich, should its reference 

 to the genus Dinornis turn out to be correct, is a most note- 

 worthy discovery. 



13. Dresser^s Monograph of the Bee-eaters. 



[A Monograph of the Meropidaj, or Family of the Bee-eaters. By H. E. 

 Dresser, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. Parts I., II. Small folio. London : 1884.] 



We are pleased to see the good progress already made by 

 Mr. Dresser with his 'Bee-eaters.' It will be granted by 

 everj^ one that Mr. Keulemaus has executed his portion of 

 the task well. Mr. Dresser has worked out his subject 

 thoroughly and has succeeded in getting together a great 

 deal of valuable material in his text. We fear, however, 

 that exception will be taken to the description of his discovery 

 of skins of Merops cyanophrys in the Jardin des Plantes, 



The following species are figured in the first two pares ; — 



Part 1. 

 Nyctiornis amictus. Merops sumatrauus. 



athertoni. bicolor. 



Meropogon forsteni. vli'idis, 



Merops breweri. 



