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forms, identical with those found on Mount Ophir and in 

 the Johore Hills. 



Mr. Robinson's list of birds contains the names of 31 

 species, to which short remarks are added. None of them 

 are new, but some are not yet quite positively identified. 



58. Smith Woodward on Fossil Birds. 



A Guide to the Fossil Mammals and Birds in the Department of 

 Geology and Palaeontology in the British Museum (Natural History), 

 Cromwell Road, London. S.W. With 6 plates and 88 text-figures, 

 Eighth edition. London, 1904. Price Sixpence.] 



This is, we may surely say, as cheap a sixpennyworth of 

 scientific matter as has ever been offered to the public for their 

 instruction. The greater part of the ' Guide ' is, of course, 

 devoted to the Mammals, which in their fossil state are very 

 much more numerous than Birds. But the last ten pages of 

 the work are occupied by a condensed account of the principal 

 extinct forms of bird-life, and are illustrated by text-figures 

 in which their leading features are admirably shown. We 

 have the wonderful skulls of Odontopteryx and Phororhacos, 

 and the whole skeletons of Hesperornis, Ichthyornis, and 

 Dinornis set before us, besides interesting particulars con- 

 cerning the only two known specimens of the anomalous form 

 Archceopteryx yet discovered, which are now-a-days referred 

 to two different species. 



59. Vallentin on Birds from the Falkland Islands. 



[Notes on the Falkland Islands. By Rupert Vallentin. Manch. Mem. 

 xlviii. pt. 3, no. 23. Manchester, 1904. Pp. 48.] 



Mr. Vallentin, who has recently paid two visits to the 

 Falkland Islands, has in the present memoir put together a 

 good deal of information concerning this distant outlier of the 

 Empire. Besides many allusions to the birds of the group, 

 the author gives a special heading to the section ee Aves," and 

 arranges his field-notes of this subject in systematic order, 

 following " as a Guide " Evans's volume on ' Birds/ About 

 36 species are mentioned, and interesting information is 

 given with regard to many of them. The Penguins form a 



