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75. Harvie-Broivn on a Colour -Code for Zoogeography . 



[Ou a Correct Colour-Code, or Sortation Code in Colours, By J. A. 

 Ilarvie-Brown, F.R.S.E. Proc. Intern. Congr. Zool. Cambr. 1898, 

 p. 155.] 



This is an abstract of a communication made to the 

 International Congress of Zoology at the meeting at 

 Cambridge last year. Mr. Ilarvie-Brown recommends the 

 following colour-code for zoogeographical purposes : — 



1. Arctic R.ealm, White. 



2. Antarctic Eealni, Grey. 



3. Palsearctic Region, Red. 



4. Nearctic Region, Brown. 



5. Neotropical Region, Blue. 



6. Ethiopian Region, Black. 



7. Oriental Region, Green. 



8. Australian Region, Yellow. 



9. Madagascarian Subregiou, 



Purple. 



A set of special labels for Snbregions is added. These are 

 of course of minor importance, but as regards the Regions we 

 think that Mr. Harvie-Brown's proposals are well worthy of 

 acceptance, and the Madagascarian (or Malagasy) Subregiou 

 might certainly have a colour to itself^ for which '' Purple/' 

 as suggested, may do very well. 



It is convenient to know that Messrs. Hugh Stevenson 

 and Sons (Bridge Street, Ardwick, Manchester) are ready to 

 supply pamphlet-cases, book-protecting cases, and other 

 boxes covered according to " Harvie-Brown^s Correct 

 Colour-Code.^' 



HO). 'Irish Naturalist.' 



[The Irish Naturalist, a Monthly Journal of general Irish Natural 

 History. Edited by G, II. Carpenter and R. Lloyd Praeger. Vol. vii. 

 No. 12 ; Vol. viii. Nos. 1-4. Dublin : Eason & Son, Limited, 1898-99.] ; 



In the January number Mr. R. J. Ussher's interesting 

 account of his further discoveries of the remains of the Great 

 Auk {Alca impennis) in the kitchen-middens of the South of 

 Ireland is followed by descriptions by Mr. W. J. Knowles of 

 bones of this extinct bird from Whitepark Bay, Co. Antrim, 

 in the North ; so that the Garefowl must have been at one 



