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nest, attached to the stem of a fallen tree, was taken. Three 

 specimens of the rare Hornbill Anorrhinus austeni (cf. Ibis, 

 1872, p. 6) were procured on the Patkoi Hills and are de- 

 scribed in detail. Altogether Herr Hartert seems to have 

 made a most successful and instructive expedition. 



88. Hartlaub on Birds from China. 



[Ueber eine Sarunilung Chinesischen Vogel. Von Dr. G. Hartlaub. 

 Abhandl. naturw. Ver. Bremen, xi. 1890.] 



Dr. Hartlaub gives us an account of a small collection of 

 birds sent to the Bremen Museum by Herr B. Schmacker, a 

 Bremner resident in Shanghai. It contains 100 specimens, 

 Avhich are referred to 48 species. These are all known species, 

 but our friend manages to give us some very interesting notes 

 on them, and prefaces his account of them with a concise 

 but accurate resume of our chief authorities on Chinese orni- 

 thology. Only we must inform him that Mr. Seebohm, not 

 the British Museum, is the fortunate owner of the " Swinhoe 

 Collection." 



89. Oustalet on a new Tinamou. 



[Description d'un nouveau Tiuamou de la Patagonie. Par M. E. Ous- 

 talet. Ann. d. Sc. Nat. Zool. ix. p. 34.] 



Under the name Tinamotis ingoufi, M. Oustalet describes 

 a second species of this peculiar genus of Tinamidae, of which 

 a specimen, was obtained by M. Lebrun, of the French 

 Scientific Mission to Patagonia, at Santa Cruz in 1882. The 

 only previously known species of this genus is T. pentlandi, 

 of the Bolivian Andes. 



90. Py craft on the Bird's Wing. 



[A Contribution to the Pterylography of Birds' Wings. By W. P. 

 Pycraft. 8vo. Leicester: 181)0. Reprinted from the Trans. Leicester 

 Lit. & Phil. Soc. ii. pt. 3.] 



We are much pleased to see a new writer taking up ptery- 

 lography — there is still so much to be done, even as regards the 

 most ordinary British species, in this much-neglected branch 



