434 Messrs. Salvin and Sclater's Index to the 



2. Hints on Shore-shooting, with a Chapter on skinning and 

 preserving Birds. London : 1871. Post 8vo, pp. 88. 



V. antea, p. 185. 



3. Exhibition of, and Remarks on a Specimen of the so-called 

 Sabine's Snipe (Scolopax sabinii). P. Z. S. 1871, p. 39. 



4. Exhibition of a Red-breasted Goose (Anser ruficollis, 

 Pallas). P. Z. S. 1871, p. 102. 



The specimen exhibited was stated to have been shot at 



Maldon, on the Essex coast. 



5. Catalogue of an Arctic Collection of Birds presented by Mr. 

 John Barrow, F.R.S., to the Universiti/ Museum at Oxford, 

 with Notes on the Species. P. Z. S. 1871, pp. 110-123. 



This interesting collection is contained in forty-two cases, 

 which Mr. Hartiug takes seriatim, giving notes on the birds in 

 each. A specimen of Eurinorhynchus prjgmceus in summer plu- 

 mage, which has already furnished the subject of a Plate in this 

 Journal (Ibis, 1869, p. 426, t. xii.), appears to be the rarest species 

 in the collection. We notice that Mr. Harting calls the Black- 

 throated Diver in ease 22, from Behring's Straits, Colymbus 

 arcticus. Is it not rather C pacificus of Lawrence ? The spe- 

 cimen in case No. 21, called C. glacialis, has already been as- 

 cribed to C. adamsi {Cf Scl. P. Z. S. 1859, p. 201), which fact, 

 whatever the validity of the species, ought not to have been 

 passed over without comment. 



Hartlaub, G. 



Bericht ilber die Leistungen in der Naturgeschichte der Vogel 



wdhrend des Jahres 1870. Wiegm. Arch. 1870, pt. ii. 

 Dr. Hartlaub's usual review of the ornithological literature for 

 the year 1870. ^ 



Hartlaub, G., and Pinsch, 0. 



On a Collection of Birds from Savai and Rarotonga Islands in 

 the Pacific. P. Z. S. 1871, pp. 21-32, t. ii. 



Thirteen species were contained in the collection from Savai, 

 one of the Navigator Islands, and seven from Rarotonga, one of 

 the Cook or Hervey group. Both are due to Mr. J. Csesar 

 GodefFroy's exertions in exploring the natural productions of the 

 islands of the Pacific Ocean. A new genus, Pareudiastes, type 



