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the museums in which their specimens have been deposited, 

 to incorporate into the present work. 



As a frontispiece of the work (which consists of an octavo 

 volume of 400 pages), a copy of a newly discovered original 

 picture of the Dodo by Savary is given. We hope to give a 

 more extended notice of this important publication in our 

 next number. 



New Work on Indian Birds. — Messrs. A. O. Hume and Gr. 

 F. L. Marshall send us a prospectus of ' The Game Birds of 

 India/ with ^"^ hand-coloured illustrations of all the known 

 species," to be published early in 1878. The size will be 

 that of Shelley's 'Birds of Egypt.' There will be four 

 volumes, each with about forty plates, the price to sub- 

 scribers in advance being £4) 14*. 6d., paid in England, or 

 Rs. 54 in India. The first will contain the Peafowl, Phea- 

 sants, Jungle Fowl, and Spur Fowl ; the second the Par- 

 tridges, Quail, Bustard, and Florikin ; the third the Pigeons 

 and Sandgrouse ; the fourth the Water-birds, Cranes, Geese, 

 Duck, Teal, Snipe, Woodcock, &c. A fifth volume may, 

 perhaps, be subsequently added, containing the Plovers and 

 Waders, which, '' though not actually Game Birds, often afford 

 very excellent eating ; " but only the four volumes enumerated 

 above will be put in hand at once. 



Exploration of Tenasserim. — Major Godwin-Austen, who 

 is temporarily engaged in arranging the collection of birds in 

 the new Imperial Museum at Calcutta, writes to us of a plan 

 which has been started there for the collection of zoological 

 specimens in the Tenasserim provinces. The services of a 

 young Swedish collector, named Ossian Limborg, who had 

 lately arrived in Calcutta, had been obtained with this object. 

 After previous instruction, Mr. Limborg had been despatched, 

 in company with a taxidermist and a native collector, on the 

 11th of December last to his destination. His first triji was 

 to the high range of Moule, east of Moulmain, about 5000 

 feet high, the base of which he reached on the 31st of De- 

 cember. Major Godwin-Austen writes on February 1, that 



