306 Recently jjublished Ornithological Works. 



of liis adventures in search of the Marsh-Warbler in Oxford- 

 shire and Switzerland (c/. 'Zoologist/ 1892, p. 303), and 

 publishes tbem in a separate form with the worthy object of 

 inducing others to make acquaintance with this interesting 

 little bird, which, in plumage at least, is so nearly similar to 

 the Reed-Warbler. Those who wish to see the differences 

 exhibited in the eggs af these two allies have only to consult 

 the splendid series of British birds' eggs in the British 

 Gallery of the Natural History Museum, South Ken- 

 sington. 



32. Harterfs Remarks on German Birds. 



[Systematische, nomenklatorische, und andere Bemerkungen iiber 

 deutsclie Vogel. Von Ernst Hartert. Ileichenow's Ornitli. Monatsb. 

 Jahr. i. p. 165.] 



Mr. Hartert has not been able to attend the meetings of 

 the Committee appointed at the Frankfort meeting, in 1891, 

 of the German Ornithological Society, to revise the list of 

 names of German birds, and now gives us in print the benefit 

 of some of his ideas on this subject. He takes Beichenow^s 

 list of 1889 {cf. above, p. 130) as a basis, and makes a series 

 of critical remarks upon it. In most of these points we 

 perfectly agree with him, whilst on others we must " agree 

 to dilfer." Mr. Hartert's notes, however, should be care- 

 fully studied by all who are interested in questions of nomen- 

 clature and arrangement. 



33. Hutton on the so-culled Dinornis queenslandise. 



[On Dino)-nis (?) queenslandice. By Capt. F. W. Hutton, F.B.S. 

 Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, ser. 2, viii. p. 7.] 



A cast of the fossil struthious femur upon which Dinornis 

 queenslandice was established in 1884 by Mr. C. W. De Vis 

 has been received by the Canterbury Museum, Christchurch, 

 N.Z., and has enabled its energetic Curator to compare it 

 with the corresponding bones of Dinornis. Capt. Hutton 

 pronounces it to be " quite distinct " from the femora of the 

 Moa, and not to be included in any of the Dinornithine 

 genera. After pointing out the differences which distinguish 



