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portion of their work is excellent ; and we particularly admire 

 the caution exercised with regard to the reported occurrence 

 of species which might not unreasonably be expected to visit 

 Sutherland_, although absolute proof is still wanting. The 

 relative distribution of species in East and West Sutherland 

 is very interesting, 



59. Collett on the Great Auk in Norway. 



[Ueber Alca impennis in Norwegen. Von Robert OoUett. Mittb, 

 ornith. Ver. in Wien, 1884.] 



The author^s chief object seems to be the rehabilitation of 

 the testimony (to which, as before stated in 'The Ibis/ 1861, 

 p. 377, Wolley demurred) of Herr Brodtkorb, who pro- 

 fesses that in 1848 he shot an Alca impennis off the coast of 

 East Finmark. Whether the attempt be successful would 

 take too long here to discuss. A catalogue, with measure- 

 ments, of the bones of this species found on Funk Island in 

 1841 by Stuwitz, and now in the Christiania Museum, is a 

 useful addition to the lists of its remains hitherto published ; 

 but are we really to believe that so much individual variation 

 is shown by the specimens as from 46 mm. to 77 mm. in tlie 

 breadth of the skull, or is not the latter number a misprint ? 



60. Cory on the Birds of San Domingo. 



[The Birds of Haiti and San Domingo. By Cliarles B. Cory, F.L.S. 

 Part III. 4to. Boston: 1884.] 



]Mr. Cory^s third part of the Birds of Haiti and San 

 Domingo carries on the subject to the Scolopacidse and 

 Parridse. The following species are figured in this part : — 

 Conurus chloropterus , Rupornis ridgwayi in three stages of 

 plumage, (Edicnemus dominicensis, and Parr a gymnostoma. 



61. Dresser's Monograph of the Bee-eaters. 



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

 E. Dresser, F.L.S. Part III. Small folio. London: 1884.] 



Part III. of IMr, Dresser's Monograph contains well- 

 executed coloured plates of the seven following species : — 



