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J-'hoebctria fulujlnosa Gm. (Sooty Albatros). Plate ciii. 



This species breeds on the Auckhmd and the Antipodes Islands. 



I'hotbctiia curnicoides Hntton (Hutton's Sooty Albatios). 



The author erects this bird into a separate species, intending to consider it a, 

 "Variety of fuUginoxa. It appears to have a more southern range than the darker 

 form. The adult is described as beini;- similar. 



The whole work is provided with a .sutHcient index and a small list of errata 

 and corrigenda. Mr. Godman in the preface to the whole work points out the 

 difficulties he has been labouring under in (-(^mpleting the wurk begun by the late 

 Mr. Salvin. and makes his acknowledgments to those who have helped to carry the 

 work to a successful completion. Mr. Keuleniann's drawings have been coloured by 

 Dr. Sharp's daughters. There is no doubt that this monograph will be of much 

 use in the study of this admittedly difficult group. There is also an article by 

 Mr. Pycraft on the systematic position of the petrels from their anatomical 

 character. This is followed by a systematic list of the species and a classification 

 of the group, with a key to the subfamilies and species. 



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5. Globicephalus melas Traili. 



An important paper on the osteology of the skull of Globicephalus tnelas Traill 

 appears in the " Annuario del Museo Zoologico della R. Universita di Napoli " 

 (nuova serie), vol. iii, No. 8, of the 21st October, 1909, relating to a specimen 

 obtained from the Gulf of Salerno, where, however, it is of very rare occurrence. 

 Three photographic views of the skull are given. The paper gives an interesting 

 history of the species so far as relates to its occurrence in the Mediterranean. It 

 occurs somewhat frequently on the coasts of New Zealand. The paper also con- 

 tains a table and measurements, and a list of works cited. 



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6. Mesoplodon bowdoini Andrews. 



In volume xxiv of the Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 

 published in 1908, there is an article, commencing on page 203, describing a new 

 species of Mesoplodon from the Canterbury Province, New Zealand, by Roy C. 

 Andrews, with a plate (No. 12) and five text figures. This paper is descriptive of a 

 skeleton collected at New Brighton Beach, Ghristchurch, in 1904, and now in the 

 American Museum of Natural History. The species has been named M. bowdoini 

 in honour of G. S. Bowdoin, one of the Trustees of the Museum. A full series of 

 measurements are given, and illustrations of the most important parts of the 

 anatomy. Unfortunately no comparisons are given with the known New Zealand 

 species, but the measurements of M. bidenn and the allied species M. europapu-^ are 

 supplied. The skeleton is supposed to be that of an adult male. 



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7. New Zealand Lichens. 



It may interest botanical workers in New Zealand to know that there is a 

 good bibliography by Edwin Cheel of the literature on Australian and New Zealand 

 lichens in the Journal of the Royal Society of New South Wales, vol. xl, 1906. The 

 New Zealand portion is contained in the second paper, commencing at No. 146, on 

 page" 147, and runs up to No. 204, on page 151. The bibliography gives the papers 

 on the lichens of the Chatham Islands and Campbell Island, and several other 

 groups, such as Fiji, New Hebrides, Tonga, Samoa. &< . The first part, which is 

 Australian, is in vol. xxxvii, pp. 171-82, 1903. 



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