162 Letters, Extracts, Notices, fyc. 



that the greatest number of specimens were recorded in 

 Bukowina, as might have been expected. General details 

 as to the flights of the different years, their direction, and 

 their length of stay, also as to the manner of life and the 

 food of the birds, and other particulars are appended, and a 

 clearly drawn map accompanies the memoir. Although 

 several cases of females being shot with ripe eggs in the ovi- 

 duct are recorded, no authentic instance of the bird's breed- 

 ing in Austro- Hungary has been ascertained. 



102. Zeledon on the Birds of Costa Rica. 



[Catalogo de las Aves de Costa Rica. Con indication de las especies, 

 localidades y niimero de ejemplares contenidos en la coleccion del Museo 

 Nacional. For Jose" C. Zeledon. Ann. Mus. Nac. Rep. Costa Rica, 1887, 

 p. 107.] 



This revised and augmented Catalogue of the Birds of 

 Costa Rica gives the names and localities of no less than 708 

 species. The last published list (Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 1885, 

 p. 104) contained 692, showing that 16 species have been 

 recently added to the Costa-Rican avifauna by the exertions 

 of the author, whose zeal in the good cause is well known 

 to us. 



XL VI. — Letters, Extracts, Notices, &;c. 



The following letters, addressed " to the Editor," have 

 been received since our last issue : — 



Sir, — Occasionally individuals of the Penguin of New 

 Zealand (Eudyptes pachyrhynchus) leave the sea and ramble 

 considerable distances up the freshwater rivers. Two in- 

 stances, which have occurred to my knowledge within the 

 last five years, are worth recording. On February 9th, 1886, 

 a specimen of this species was captured on the Kakauni river, 

 in North Otago, six miles from the sea. A second speci- 

 men was captured on the 24th of last month, on the Ashburton 

 river, twelve miles from the sea, and was duly chronicled 

 in the local newspapers. Mr. Robin, the farmer who brought 



