30 1 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



to tlie memory of the late CoL Drummond-Hay ; and frequent 

 mention will be found in it of the names of Wedderburn, 

 Tristram, Orde, and John Matthew Jones, author of ' The 

 Naturalist in Bermuda/ in whose work some of these notes 

 have already appeared. Miss Hurdis appears to be unac- 

 quainted with Capt. Savile G. Reid's excellent memoir on 

 the Birds of Bermuda (1884), published in the Bulletin of the 

 U.S. National Museum ; and her interesting volume is rather 

 out of date in scientific value. 



40. Hutton on the Moas of the North Island of New 

 Zealand. 



[The Moas of the North Island of New Zealand. By Capt. F. W. 

 Hiittou, F.R.S. Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxix. p. 540 (1896).] 



Capt. Hutton gives us here a revision of the Moas of the 

 North Island of New Zealand, to which he has lately paid 

 special attention, having examined most of the specimens in 

 the New Zealand collections. He now concurs generally 

 with the nomenclature used by Mr. Lydekker, but prefers to 

 use the term Euryapteryce instead of Emeus. It appears that 

 most of the genera of Dinornithidse are represented in both 

 the North and South Islands, while " nearly all the species 

 of each island are distinct." Capt. Hutton therefore con- 

 cludes that the " two islands of New Zealand were separated 

 from each other after the development of most of the genera, 

 but before the development of the species." 



The species of Moas recognized by the author as repre- 

 sented in the North Island are eleven, which are referred to 

 six genera — Dinor^nis, Megalapteryx, Anomalornis, Cela, 

 Eiiryapteryx, and Pachyornis — besides two of uncertain 

 position. Anomalornis is proposed as a new name in place 

 of Anomalop)teryor , preoccupied in entomology. 



41. Macpherson on Foivling. 



[A History of Fowling, being an Account of the many curious Devices 

 by which Wild Birds are or have been captured in different parts of the 

 World. By the Rev. H. A. Macpherson, M.A. 4to. Edinburgh : David 



Douglas, 1897.] 



We congratulate the author upon the production of an 



