Recently published Ornithological Works. 385 



emend.) for the Brepanorhynchus of Dr. Dubois. The three 

 species belonging to SpermopMlopsis would be S. schistaceus 

 (Dubois), S. falcirostris (Teinm.), and S. superciliaris (Pelz.). 



Mr. Rothschild also sent to the Meeting the following 

 note : — " A few weeks ago I received from Mr. Travers a 

 couple of specimens of Sterna vittata, Gm., shot in February 

 on the Bounty Islands, to the south-east of New Zealand. 

 There can be no doubt as to the identification of the species, 

 as Mr. Howard Saunders and Mr. Hartert have compared 

 the birds with specimens of S. vittata in the British Museum, 

 and I think that this interesting new locality for a rare 

 Antarctic bird is worth record insr," 



XXXI. — Notices of recent Ornithological Publications. 



[Continued from p. 293.] 



63. Andrews on some Remains of iEpyornis. 



[On some Remains of JEpyornis in the Hon. Walter Rothschild's 

 Museum at Tring. By C. W. Andrews, F.Z.S. Nov. Zool. ii. p. 23.] 



The remains described were collected at Itampulu Ve, 

 on the coast north of St. Augustine's Bay, in S.W. Mada- 

 gascar. A large left tarso-metatarsus and two right femurs are 

 referred provisionally to ^. titan, as is also a distal portion 

 of a left tibio-tarsus of great size. A metatarsus of a dif- 

 ferent form is believed to be that of Mullerornis rudis, Milne- 

 Edw. & Grand., being distinguished by the presence of a 

 completely ossified bony bridge over the lower end of the 

 groove for the adductor of the outer digit. This character 

 necessitated the creation of a new genus, proposed to be 

 called Flacourtia. 



64. Annals of Scottish Natural History. Nos. 13 & 14, 

 1895. 



The chief ornithological feature of No. 13 is an interesting 

 article by Mr. J. A. llarvie-Brown on the distribution and 



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