Recently published Ornithological Works. 447 



Mr. Finn records the exhibition before the Asiatic Society 

 of Bengal of specimens of the Lesser White-fronted Goose 

 {Anser erythropus) , a species of rare occurrence in British 

 India. Three living examples of it were obtained on January 

 1st, 1898, from a dealer in Calcutta — who is believed to 

 have received them from Rawul Pindi — and were deposited 

 in the Zoological Garden at Alipore. The " soft parts " in 

 the living bird are carefully described. 



62. Finn on some noteworthy Indian Birds. 



[On some noteworthy Indian Birds. By F. Finn, B.A., F.Z.S. J. A. 

 S. B. Ixvi. pt. ii. p. 523.] 



Notes are given on Rhytidoceros narcondami from the 

 Andamans, Phasianus humice and its variations (see above, 

 p. 311), and other species. Nyroca baeri occurred in the 

 Calcutta bazaar in the cold weather of 1896-97 in far greater 

 numbers than usual. Mr. Finn figures its trachea. We 

 may add that living examples of this Duck have been lately 

 received by the Zoological Society of London from Mr. Finn. 



63. Forbes on an extinct Starling. 



[On an apparently new, and supposed to be now extinct Species of 

 Bird from the Mascarene Islands (previously referred to the Genus 

 Nea-opsar). By II. O. Forbes. Bull. Liv. Mus. i. p. 29 (1898).] 



Under the name Necropsar leguati Dr. Forbes describes 

 and figures a specimen recently found in a cabinet of the 

 Derby Museum (where it is supposed to have remained 

 undisturbed for nearly fifty years), which was purchased by 

 Lord Derby in 1850 from Verreaux, of Paris, labelled 

 " Madagascar.^' It is conjectured that this may be an 

 example of the " little bird " stated by Leguat {' Relation de 

 d'lle Rodrigue,' p. 335) to be found on the Islet au Mat, 

 south of the main island of Rodriguez. Dr. Forbes refers 

 this bird, rather doubtfully, to the genus Necropsar, instituted 

 in 1879 by Dr. Giinther and Sir Edward Newton for the 

 reception of the subfossil remains of a bird discovered in 

 1874 by Mr. Slater in Rodriguez (Phil. Trans, vol. 168, 

 p. 427), and believed to be closely allied to Fregilupus. 



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