Recently published Ornithological Works. 365 



and interest, and are sure that many other Members of our 

 Union will do the same. 



32. Collett on the Great Auk in Norway. 



[Nogle Bemajrkninger om Alca impennis i Norge. Af R. Collett. 

 Christianiti Vidensk.-Selsk. Forhandl. 1907, No. 8. CbristiaDia, 1907.] 



Dr. Collett here gives a sketch of our knowledge of the 

 Great Auk in Norway, beginning with Linnseus, who, in his 

 ' Fauna Suecica ' in 1746, cautiously says "habitat in mari 

 Norvegico, rarius ! ^' He then proceeds to the recent dis- 

 covery of its remains in kitchen-middens on the Norwegian 

 coast. There is only one complete stufl'ed specimen of the bird 

 in any of the Norwegian museums, of which an uncoloured 

 plate is given. The bones from the kitchen-middens now in 

 the Museum at Christiania are likewise described and figured ; 

 they consist of fragments of the humerus and coracoid. 



Dr. Collett moreover describes a considerable series of the 

 bones of the Great Auk which were exhumed by P. Stuwitz 

 in 1842 on Funk Island, north of Newfoundland, and are 

 also in the Christiania Museum. 



33. Dresser on Palaearctic Birds' Eggs. 



[Eggs of the Birds of Europe, including all the Species inhabiting th& 

 Western Palaearctic Area. By H. E. Dresser. Parts XIII., XIV.,. 

 XV., XVI.] 



These four parts of Mr. Dresser's work treat of the 

 Corvida, Cypselidee, Caprimulgidee, Picida, Alcedinidce, Cora- 

 ciidcB, Meropidce, Upupidee, CuculidcE, Strigidce, Phalacro- 

 coracidce, Sulidce, Peleca7iidce, Ardeida, Ciconiida, Ibidida 

 (with Platalea), Phoenicopteridce, and Anatida. The eggs 

 figured are those of members of the same families, with the 

 addition of Phasianidce, Tetraonida, Rallida, Gruida, and 

 OtididcB. The plates, as a whole, are even better than their 

 precursors, and the three-colour process of photography is 

 fully justifying its use for the representation of Oological 

 specimens. The letterpress contains much interesting 



