308 Recently published Oi'nithological Works. 



divide them into two sections — jEpyornis, with large and 

 massive feet^ and MuUerornis (gen. nov.), with proportionately- 

 smaller feet. ^. ingens, sp. nov ., was larger than jE. maooimus, 

 and different from ^. titan, Andrews. jE. cursor, yE. mulleri, 

 and ^. lentus are other new species of this section. Of 

 MuUerornis three species are diagnosed as M. betsilei, M. 

 agilis, and M. rudis. Amongst the Dinornithine remains 

 (which the authors consider to have been certainly contem- 

 poraneous with Man) bones of a large Rail allied to Aphana- 

 jjtei'yx and of a Hippopotamus also occur. 



36. North on the Occurrence of the Corn-Crake in 

 Australia. 



[On a Specimen of Crex crex, shot at Eandwick, New South Wales. 

 By Alfred J. North, F.L.S. Records Australian Mu3. ii. p. 82.] 



Mr. North records the occurrence of an example of the 

 European Corn-Crake [Crex pratensis) near Sydney, which 

 is far out of its usual range, though it is stated that this 

 wandering bird has been found in New Zealand (Dresser, 

 B. Eur. vii. p. 295). 



37. North on a new Australian Farrakeet. 



[Description of a new Species of Parrakeet, of the Genus Platycercus, 

 from North-west Australia. By Alfred J. North, F.L.S. Records 

 Australian ]Mus. ii. p. 83.] 



Platycercus Occident alis, a new species from N.W. Aus- 

 tralia, is allied to P. zunarius. 



38. Novitates Zoulogica. — No. 1. 



[Novitates Zoolbgicte. A Journal of Zoology. Edited by the Hon. 

 Walter Rothschild, Ernst Hartert, and Dr. K. Jordan. Vol, i., 1894. 



No. I.] 



The first part of the new zoological journal of the Tring 

 IMuseum contains four ornithological papers of much interest. 

 ]\Ir. Rothschild describes and figures Turturcena sharpei, 

 Salvad., from E. Africa, originally based on a fragmentary 

 specimen, and characterizes Osmotreron everetti, sp. nov., from 



