Recently published Ornithological Works. 307 



it^ lie comes to the conclusion that the supposed Australian 

 Dinornis should be referred to the Casuariidse. So much 

 for the alleged occurrence of Dinornithine forms in Australia, 

 ■which has been based on this bone ! 



34. Kaiser on the Birds of Sinai. 



[Zur Ornis der Sinalialbinsel : Beobaclitun^en in den Jaliren 1890 u. 

 1891. Yon A. Kaiser. Orn. Jahrb. iii. p. 207 (1892).] 



Herr Kaiser and his wife passed the autumn and winter 

 months of 1890 and 1891 in the Wadi Bedr_, in the south- 

 west of the Sinaitic peninsula, and there made the greater 

 number of the observations upon which the present memoir 

 is based. Notes were also taken at Tor, on the Gulf of 

 Suez, where 68 species of birds were recognized. The Wadi 

 IBcdr lies about 40 kil. north of Tor, at the eastern edge of the 

 Kaa Desert, at an elevation of 1000 metres. It is a romantic 

 valley of small area, about 4 kil. in length, traversed by a 

 small, ever-flowing streamlet, and with a considerable amount 

 of vegetation. Here 59 species of birds were registered 

 during the two visits, nearly all of them European forms. 

 Dmnng Herr Kaiser's excursions to the higher peaks of 

 Sinai 20 species were observed, amongst which were Carpo- 

 dacus sinaiticus, Corvus umbrinus, and Gypaetus barbatus. 

 Special attention appears to have been paid to the migrants, 

 and the journal of their occurrences is given at full length. 

 Altogether this will be found an instructive paper to students 

 of the European Ornis. 



35. Milne-Edwards and Grandiditr on -^py ornis. 



[Observations sur les ALpyornh de Madagascar. Par M. A. Milue- 

 Edwards et Alfred Grandidier. C. R. cxviii. Jan. 15, 1894.] 



After a short summary of previous observations on Dinor- 

 nis, the authors give an account of recent discoveries of 

 fossil bones of this family at Antsirata by the late George 

 ]\Iuller, by ]\I. Samat at Mouroundava, and by M. Greve on 

 the west coast, which altogether seem to indicate the former 

 existence in Madagascar at least of ] 2 species of this group, 

 of difi'erent forms and dimensions. Anatomical characters 



