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now announced the speedy appearance of his long promised 

 Supplement to the ' Birds of Europe.' Two important 

 works, which, however, are making somewhat slower pro- 

 gress — Menzbier's ' Oruithologie du Turkestan ' and 

 Pleske's ' Ornithographia Rossica ' — are likewise being 

 issued in Russia. To illustrate the Ornis, until recently so 

 little known, of the Hawaiian archipelago, we haA'e two 

 splendidly illustrated works both approaching completion; I 

 need hardly say I refer to Messrs. "Wilson and Evans's 

 ' Aves Hawaiienses,^ and to Mr. Rothschild's ' Avifauna of 

 Laysan ; ' both of them productions creditable alike to British 

 science and to British art. 



In MonograjDhs the list is perhaps not quite so long 

 as usual, but Dr. Sharpe's ' Paradise-birds,' Mr. Elliot's 

 ' Pittas,' and Mr. Butler's ' Foreign Finches ' are alike 

 in process of issue^ while Messrs. Sharpe and Wyatt 

 have just brought to a completion their 'Monograph of the 

 Hirundinidse ^ and our friend Heer P. E. Blaauw is working 

 hard at an illustrated volume on the Cranes. 



I must also not omit to hope for a speedy completion of 

 Messrs. Newton and Gadow's ' Dictionary of Birds,' which, 

 as we must all be aware, when brought to a conclusion, will 

 be of material assistance to the working ornithologist. 



Section III. The Great ' Catalogue of Birds.' 



Since the opening of our last Session the 22nd volume of the 

 ' British Museum Catalogue of Birds,' containing the Game 

 Birds, by Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant, and the 23rd volume, 

 containing the Rails, Cranes, and Bustards, by Dr. Bowdler 

 Sharpe, have been published. From the last Parliamentary 

 Report of the British Museum we learn tliat vol. xxiv. of 

 this important work will contain the Waders, by Dr. 

 Sharpe; vol. xxv. the Gulls and Petrels, by Mr. H. Saunders 

 and Mr. O. Salvin; vol. xxvi. the Divers, Pelicans, Cor- 

 morants, and Herons, by Dr. Sharpe ; and vol. xxvii. tiie 

 Geese, Ducks, and the remainder of the Class of Birds, 

 by Count T. Salvadori. Thus, as these naturalists are all, I 

 believe, busily engaged on the compilation of their respective 



