316 Recently published Ornithological Works. [Ibis, 



Chile ; it was collected by Mr. R. H. Beck, and is now in 

 the Brewster-Saitford collection. It is named Diomeden 

 [Rhothonia) sanfordi, snbgen. et sp. nov. 



The character on wliich Mr. Murphy founds his new 

 subgenus is the shape of the tubular nostril, which is 

 bulging and rotund when viewed from in front, while that 

 of Diomedea proper is compressed and oval. The plumage 

 of the new form is remarkable for the absence of all bars or 

 vermiculations. 



Lord Eothschild at a recent meeting of the B. O. C. 

 (Bull. B. O. C. xxxviii. p. 39), commenting on Mr. Murphy's 

 new form, states that he believes it is identical with D. chiono- 

 ptera of Kerguelen and Australia. We may also refer 

 Mr. Murphy to the note on p. 64 of the Rev, Fr. d'Orn. 

 for last year, alluded to on p. 330 of the present number. 



Oademans on the Dodo. 



[Dodo-Studieu iiaar aauleiding van de vondst van een gevelsteeu 

 met Dodo-beeld van 1561 te Vere. Dor Dr. A. C. Oademans. 

 Verhandl. Kon. Akad. Wet. Amsterdam, 2e Sect. xix. no. 4, 1917, 

 pp. 1-140 ; 15 pis.] 



Dr. Oudemans has sent us the following account of his 

 studies on the Dodo, which have recently been published by 

 the Royal Academy of Sciences of Amsterdam, and which 

 we think will be of interest to our readers. 



It was in August 1909 that I visited the 'Wille morte" 

 Vere in the Province of Zeeland, and that I saw there 

 a gable-stone, known to everyone in Vere and to every 

 traveller who has been there; the house is named "In 

 den Struys" (In the Ostrich), or " het Schotsche huis'' (the 

 Scottish house). On the gable-stone is engraved a large- 

 billed, thick-necked, short-winged, plume-tailed, thick-legged 

 bird. Though no ornithologist, I immediately recognized 

 the Dodo. But the most remarkable fact is, that the stone 

 bears the date 1561; this is 40 years anterior to the oldest 

 known representation of that extinct bird. 



This discoverv induced me to make a study of all what has 



