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with two eggs. A list of Members is also given from 

 which we see tl 

 now numbers 199. 



which we see that the Australian Ornithologists Union 



(12) In the ' Journal fiir Ornithologie ' for April 1906 

 appears the concluding half of Dr. G. Schiebel's " Phylogeny 

 of the Za?izws-species." It is illustrated by four lovely 

 plates, depicting 27 figures of adult and juvenile " Lanius " 

 species. This number also contains the concluding chapter 

 of 0. Neumann's " Birds of Schoa and Southern Ethiopia.'^ 



(13) The P. Z. S. of August 1905 contains a paper entitled 

 " Remarks on the Hybridisation of Ducks/' by J. L. Bonhote. 

 In summing up his results obtained by hybridisation he lays 

 stress on the antagonism between Natural Selection and 

 variation, and how the one tended to keep the species pure 

 and fixed in spite of the innate tendency of every individual 

 to vary, and also pointing out how, in spite of Natural 

 Selection, marked variations were constantly making their 

 appearance among pure species. Mr. Bonhote did not 

 believe the resemblances shown by hybrids to one or the other 

 species were due to reversion, but merely to variation. 

 This number also contains a paper entitled " Notes on the 

 Mammals and Birds of Liberia," by Sir Harry H. Johnston, 

 G.C.M.G., &c. 



After a short sketch of the fauna of Liberia he gives a list 

 of mammals and one of the birds collected by Mr. Harold 

 Reynolds (by Charles Chubb, Zool. Dept. British Museum). 

 We see that Chrysococcyx ciipreus (Didric) is not often met 

 with in Liberia. 



(14) The October (1905) number of the same Journal 

 contains an important article on the " Osteology of the 

 Euryltemida^," by W. P. Pycraft, F.Z.S., M.B.O.U., and one 

 on the " Anatomy of Limicoline Birds/' by Dr. P. C. Mitchell, 

 M.A. (Sec). 



