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its Ornithology, but the present pamphlet cannot be said 

 to be superfluous, for we are much pleased with the clear 

 and life-like description of the island and its inhabitants, 

 their methods of fowling, collecting eggs, and so forth. The 

 account of the capture of a Great Auk about 1840 is once 

 more given from the lips of the grandson of one of the men 

 concerned, and a complete list of the birds of St. Kilda is 

 appended, to which the White Wagtail is an addition. A 

 new breeding-station of the Fork-tailed Petrel was discovered 

 by Mr. Wiglesworth on Levenish, but it is with the greatest 

 regret that we find corroboration of the large numbers of its 

 eggs (300-400) that are taken annually by the natives. 



144. Winge on the Fossil Birds of Denmark. 



[Om jordfundne Fugle fra Danmark. Af Ilerluf Winge. Vidensk. 

 Meddel. fra den Naturh. Foren. i Kjobenkavn, 1903, pp. 61-110, tab. 1.] 



In this well-arranged memoir the author has put together a 

 summary of what is at present known concerning the fossil 

 birds of Denmark, which, though numerous, are all from the 

 most recent formations. Altogether bones belonging to 

 05 species are recognised, nearly all of which are members 

 of the existing avifauna. A left humerus, found by Steen- 

 strup in 1851 in Ordrup Moss, near Christiansholm, appears 

 to belong to one of the smaller species of (Estrelata. 

 It is described and figured, along with corresponding bones 

 of other Petrels for comparison. Many bones of Alca 

 impennis are registered from various localities. A portion of 

 a sternum of Pelecanus crispus is attributed to the Older 

 Stone-age, so that the Pelican certainly visited Denmark 

 iu former days. 



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W r E have received the following letters addressed to " The 

 Editors of ' The Ibis ' " :— 



Sirs,— In 'The Ibis' for 1897, pp. 361-5, I wrote an 

 article on the nesting of Cassicus persicus and other birds of 

 the Lower Amazon. I there stated that the Japu (Ostiuops 



