330 Recently published Ornithologlcul JForks. 



of the rare and curious Heterococcyx neylecius Sclil. has 

 been obtained. 



5G. Forbes on Birds in the Derby Museum, Liverpool. 



[Catalogue of tlie Lizavd-tailed (Saimirae), the Toothed (Odontor- 

 nithes), and the Ostricli-like (Struthiones) Birds, and of the Tinanious 

 (Tiuanii) and the Divers (Oolymbi), in the Derb\' Museum. By Henry <). 

 Forbes, LL.U. Bull. Liverp. Mu,?. iii. p. 25, 1900.] 



Dr. Forbes continues his catalogue of the l)irds in the 

 Museum under his cliarge, and in the present article treats 

 of the Saurur^, OJontornithes, Strutliiones, Tinami^ and 

 Colyuibi. Some remarkable statements are made concerning 

 the variations in size and shape observed in the bones of a 

 large series of skeletons of Moas, which were disinterred 

 under Dr. Forbes' eyes in New Zealaiul, the conclusion 

 being that the species of Dinornis have been unduly aug- 

 mented by describers. 



57. Fricher's 'Antarctic Regions.^ 



[The Antarctic Regions. By Dr. Karl Fricker. (Translated by A. 

 Souneuschein.) London : Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1900. 1 vol. 

 292 pp. Price 7s. Qd.] 



This is a useful volume of reference for those who are 

 interested in Antarctic matters generally and in the new 

 National Antarctic Expedition specially, as it contains a full 

 account of the history of the discovery of the South Polar 

 lauds and their physical structure. But the author evidently 

 knows little about Natural History, and the few lines devoted 

 to the Antarctic Avifauna (pp. 270-71) are misleading and 

 inaccurate. The author seems never to have heard of the 

 Emperor Penguin — the largest and finest bird in Antarctica, 

 Nor does he appreciate the value of Penguins' flesh as an 

 article of diet in high Southern latitudes (see above, p. 131). 

 The article on the birds of Antarctica, published in this 

 Journal in 1894 (p. 494), is not even mentioned in the 

 Bibliography. 



58. Godnian and Salvia's ' Biologia Centrali- Americana.' 



[Biologia CentraU-Americana ; or, Contributions to the Knowledge 

 of the Fauna and Flora of Mexico and Central America. Edited bv 



