Recently published Or ait lioloyical Works. 137 



it will have been seen that the resemblances to the Emeu, 

 and to a less extent to the Cassowary, are many and con- 

 siderable, 



"The presence of the bony bridge is, however, a con- 

 spicuous, if not morphologically important point of difference. 

 The Emeu, in fact, appears to be its nearest ally, though there 

 are points of resemblance, other than in respect to bulk, 

 to the Binormthidee, and possibly it may be found to the 

 Gastornithidce. We may, perhaps, provisionally regard it as 

 an ancestral form of Emeu, possibly having relations to the 

 New Zealand group. 



" Of its relations to existing forms, other than those of the 

 ratite type which have been mentioned, it is premature to 

 speak; such facts will emerge with greater certainty and 

 completeness on a study of the head, the restoration of 

 which — a long and tedious task — is approaching completion, 

 though, unfortunately, it is in a very imperfect condition. 

 In the meantime we believe we have, in this preliminary 

 notice, sufficiently indicated, though in a manner less com- 

 plete than we could have wished, the interesting nature of 

 the discovery at Callabonna, not only as affording additional 

 evidence, in so much more complete a form than has hitherto 

 existed, of the wide range in Australia of this race of great 

 extinct birds, but also as bearing upon the phylogenetic 

 relations of the subclass to which it belongs, as well as, 

 possibly, on the question of the former distribution of land 

 in the southern hemisphere/' 



27. Winge on Birds of the Danish Lighthouses, 1895. 



[Fuglene ved de danake Fyr i 18G5 : IS"*" Aarsberetning oni danske 

 Fugle. Ved Herluf Winge. Vid. Meddel. fra d. naturh. i Kbhn. 

 1896, p. 65.] 



Mr. Wiuge's thirteenth annual report tells us that in ] 895 

 451 specimens of birds were received from thirty of the 

 Danish lighthouses, and referred to 51 species. Concerning 

 them the usual particulars are given. A clearly-drawn map 

 shows the exact position of every lighthouse. 



