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107. Seebohm's 'Monograph of the Thrushes.' 



[A Monograph of the Turdidpe, or Family of Thrushes. By the late 

 Henry Seebohni. Edited aud completed (after the Author's death) by 

 R. Bowdler Sharpe, LL.D., F.L.S., &c. Part III. Imperial 4to. 

 London : Henry Sotheran &: Co., 1898.] 



The third number of this excellent and well-illustrated 

 monograph finishes the series of Geocichla and begins the 

 typical Turdi. The species treated of, and nearly all figured, 

 are : — Geocichla andromeda, G. marginata , G. ncevia, G. toardi, 

 G. schistacea, G. pinico/a, G. sibirica, G. davisoni, G. litsit- 

 sirupa, G. semiensis, G. terrestris, Turdus maraTionicus, T. 

 bewsheri, and T. olivaceifuscus. Of these the rarest and most 

 abnormal is G. terrestris of the Bonin Islands, of which only 

 four specimens are known, all in Continental Museums. 



108. Shufeldt on Taxidermy at Leyden. 



[Taxidermical Methods in the Leyden Museum, Holland. By R. W. 

 Shufeldt. Rep. U.S. Nat. Mus. 189o, p. 10.31 (1897).] 



])r. Shufeldt sings the praises of the methods used in tlie 

 Leyden Museum by Mr. H. H. ter Meer and his son in 

 mounting the mammals and birds exhibited in the galleries 

 of that celebrated institution^ and gives photographs of some 

 of the specimens. The ciiief point urged seems to be that 

 the " prepared model of the body should be an exact repro- 

 duction of the original, before the skin is drawn over it, so 

 as to obviate the necessity of subsequently introducing 

 additional fillings." 



109. Vorderman on the Birds of Celebes. 



[Celebes-Vogels. Door A. G. Vorderman. Natuurk. Tijds. Nederl. 

 Indie, Deel Iviii. p. 1 (1898).] 



The author gives a list, with references and remarks, of a 

 collection of 323 specimens of birds, representing 118 species, 

 made by himself and assistants in various parts of Celebes 

 during a recent official visit to Macassar and the residency 

 of Menado. In the latter district ten localities were visited. 

 The species are all previously known as found in Celebes. 



