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the avifauna has been well investigated. No new species 

 were met with, but the known range of many rare inhabi- 

 tants of the Gold Coast is extended further to the westward. 

 The author believes that lleliornis (potiiis Podica) petcrsi 

 may, after all, be the same as H. senegalensis. 



88. Dall on the Scientific Work of Professor Baird. 



[Proceedings at a Meeting commemorative of tlie Life and Scientific 

 Work of Spencer Fullerton Baird, held January 11, 1888, under the joint 

 auspices of the Anthropological, Biological, and Philosophical Societies of 

 Washington. 8vo. Washington: 1888.] 



At the above Meeting several Addresses were given ; the 

 one by Mr. W. H. Dall, President of the Biological Society, 

 contains an excellent sketch of the labours of the distin- 

 guished naturalist whose loss we have recorded with sorrow 

 in ' The Ibis,' 1887, p. 480. We are glad to learn that the 

 United States Senate has voted $25,000 for his widow. 



89. Filrbringer on the Anatomy of Birds. 



[Untersuchungen zur Morphologie und Systematik der Vogel. Zu- 

 gleich ein Beitrag zur Anatomie der Stiitz- und Bewegungsorgane. Von 

 Max Fiirbringer. 2 vols., 1709 pp., 30 pis. Amsterdam : 1888.] 



This work is unquestionably one of the most important 

 contributions to our science that has recently appeared ; it 

 is, indeed, in its scope almost unique ; the only other modern 

 work which can be compared to it being Dr. Gadow's treatise 

 on the anatomy of birds, which is now being issued as a part 

 of Bronn's ' Thierreich.' The first of the two large volumes 

 contains a detailed account of the anatomy of the shoulder- 

 girdle — its bones, ligaments, nerves, and muscles — illustrated 

 by 26 plates ; as well as the author's original investiga- 

 tions, which have brought to light many important facts 

 bearing upon the classification of Birds. The second volume 

 is devoted to a consideration of the systematic arrange- 

 ment, and commences with a critical review of those ex- 

 ternal and internal structural characters which diff'er in 

 various birds, and which are therefore of use for classificatory 

 purposes. The facts thus brought together are not, in Prof. 



