576 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



schaft iu Dresden. Von Dr. A. B. Meyer. Lief. XIX.-XXI. Folio. 

 Dresden, 1894.] 



Since our last notice of this important work (Ibis, 1894, 

 p. 126), parts xix., xx., and xxi. have been issued together 

 and raise the series o£ lithographs to two hundred and ten in 

 number. !No systematic order is observed in the numbering 

 of the plates, and we fear that this may interfere with the 

 usefulness of the work when brought to a conclusion. 



108. Milne-Edwards on the Similarity of the Faunas of the 

 Mascarene Islands and the Antarctic Islands. 



[Sur les ressemblances qui existent entre la faime des lies Mascareignes 

 et celle de certaines de I'Ocdan Pacifique Austral. Par M. A. Milne- 

 Edwards. C. R. d. Stances du Troisieme Congres Intern, de Zool. 

 Leyde, 1896, p. 75.] 



This is a report of a discourse delivered by M. IMilne- 

 Edwards at the second full meeting of the Third Inter- 

 national Congress of Zoology at Leyden on Sept. 18th, 1895. 

 The author reviews the discoveries of extinct birds made in 

 Mauritius, Bourbon, and Rodriguez, and points out that, 

 especially as regards the Ralline forms [Aphanapteryx, &c.), 

 they show some surprising similarities to the fossil birds 

 lately discovered by Dr. H. O. Forbes iu the Chatham 

 Islands (see Ibis, 1893, p. 544) . The strange correspondence 

 between the Dinornithidse of New Zealand and the ^Epyorni- 

 thidse of IVIadagascar is also pointed out. 



109. Nehrling's ' North- American Birds.' 



[North- American Birds. By H. Nehrling. With 36 Coloured Plates 

 after Water-colour Paintings by Prof. Robert Ridgway, Smithsonian 

 Institution, Washington, D.C., Prof. A. Goering, Leipzig, and Gustav 

 Muetzel, Berlin. Parts IX.-XIV. 4to. Milwaukee, Wis., 1804-96.] 



We have already stated (Ibis, 1894, p. 127) our candid 

 opinion of JMr. Nehrling's ' North-American Birds.' Some 

 of the plates are certainly good specimens of what can be 

 done by chromolithography, while of others we cannot 

 speak so favourably. The letterpress appears to have been 

 carefully compiled. 



