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I should also like to cougratulate Messrs. Wilson and 

 Evans on the completion of their ' Aves Hawaiienses/ to Avhich 

 we have long been looking forward. The strange avifauna 

 of this isolated group of islands was specially worthy of a 

 monograph. 



Of equal importance in geographical ornithology are the 

 two admirable quarto volumes, published by Dr. A. B. Meyer 

 and Mr. L. A. Wiglesworth, on the ' Birds of Celebes/ 

 which have reached us since the commencement of our 

 last Session. As doubtful territory between the Oriental 

 and Australian Begions, Celebes is a locality of special 

 importance in the study of zoo-geography, and well wor'hy 

 of the elaborate care and attention that these authors have 

 devoted to it. 



I may also venture to allude to the recent completion of 

 Mr. Oates^s handy little volumes on the ' Camc-Birds of 

 India/ by the issue of the second part, and to the good 

 progress made by our Editor with Seebohm^s ' Monograph 

 of the Thrushes/ the seventh part of which has lately 

 appeared. 



Now, turning to the forthcoming works actually in 

 progress, I may mention that our brother member. Dr. A. 

 C. Stark, has nearly passed through the press the first of 

 four volumes on the 'Birds of South Africa,' Avhich will 

 form a part of Mr. W. L. Sclater^s series on the fauna of 

 that portion of the Ethiopian Region. Both Mr. Layard's 

 original volume and Dr. Sharpe's new edition of it are, I 

 believe, long since out of print, and it is highly desirable 

 that a new and revised account of the birds of that country, 

 which is now, and is likely to remain, of such interest to us, 

 should be published. 1 believe I may truly say that Dr. Stark 

 is well qualified, from long personal experience with the avi- 

 fauna in question, to prepare such a work. 



Mr. Rothschild's illustrated monograph on the Casso- 

 Avaries is now also in an advanced stage, and will shortly be 

 published in the Zoological Society's 'Transactions.' It 

 will be of great importance as comprising all the available 

 information respecting this little-known and most interesting 



