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25. SouthweWs Guide to the Norwich Castle Museum. 



[The Official Guide to the Norwicli Castle Muaeuin. With an Account 

 of its Origin and Progress. By Thomas Southwell, F.Z.S. Also an 

 Historical Account of the Castle-Keep, by Rev. Wm. Hudson, M.A., 

 and a Guide to the Collection of Pictures : with some account of the 

 " Norwich School " of Artists, by G. C. Eaton. 8vo. London : 

 Jarrold and Sons, 1896.] 



The Norwicli Castle Museum contains, as we all know, 

 the unrivalled Gurney Collection of Raptorial Birds, and 

 must therefore ever be of surpassing interest to all orni- 

 thologists. Mr. South welFs ' Guide ' gives us an excellent 

 general account of them, as they are now rearranged in 

 Norwich Castle in 55 cases. The Museum also contains a 

 good series of local birds, to which has been united the 

 " Lombe^' Collection formed by the late Edward Lombe of 

 Melton, near Norwich. The gem of this collection is an 

 example of the Great Auk, Besides this, there are specimens 

 of Savi's Warbler, the Red-footed Falcon, the Caspian 

 Plover, and many other rarities obtained within the county 

 of Norfolk. 



26. Stirling and Zietz on Genyornis newtoni. 

 [Preliminary Notes on Getiyornis newtoni, a new Genus and Species 



of Fossil Struthious Bird, found at Lake Callabonna, South Australia. 

 By E. 0. Stirling, M.D., F.R.S., and A. H. C. Zietz, F.L.S. Trans. R. 

 Soc. of S. Australia, vol. xx. p. 171 (1896).] 



A recently issued part of the ' Transactions of the Royal 

 Society of South Australia •' (vol. xx. pt. i.) gives us a pre- 

 liminary account of the new fossil Struthious bird of Lake 

 Callabonna, Genyornis newtoni, of the discovery of which we 

 have already spoken more than once *. It will be difficult 

 to understand the exact position of this remarkable addition 

 to the Class of Birds until a more detailed description of its 

 remains, and figures of them, have been published. In the 

 meanwhile we reprint the conclusions concerning it which 

 the authors of the present memoir have arrived at after their 

 preliminary studies : — 



" Though, in the absence of a careful study of so important 

 * See Ibis, 1894, pp. 328, 577, and 1896, pp. 430, 593. 



