556 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



district in systematic order. Of these, however, 16 are 

 considered to have rather doubtful claims to be included in 

 the list. It is evident that such an extensive and varied 

 tract of country might well be expected to produce a richer 

 avifauna, and in an accompanying circular the author requests 

 the assistance of his brother naturalists in extending and 

 supplementing the present work. 



77. Elliot on the Life and Services of Audubon. 



[The Life and Services of John James Audubon. An Address delivered 

 before the New York Academy of Sciences, April 26, 1893. By Daniel 

 G. Elliot, F.R.S.E. Reprinted from the Transactions of the Academy, 

 vol. xiii. p. 43.] 



On the 26th of April last year, our friend Mr. D. G. Elliot 

 delivered before the New York Academy of Sciences a well- 

 deserved eulogy upon Audubon. Audubon, born in 1780, 

 although ordinarily supposed to be an American, was a 

 Frenchman by birth, and published his great work in Scot- 

 land. He was an artist, and, as Mr. Elliot puts it, " a woods- 

 man, not a scientific naturalist, according to the ideas pre- 

 valent to-day " — but a man of indomitable resolution and 

 perseverance, and an ornithologist of whom our American 

 friends may well be proud. 



78. Finsch on a rare Rail. 



[Einiges iiber Siidsee-Rallen. Von Dr. O. Finsch. Ornith. Monatsb. 

 Deutsch. Ver. z. Schutze Vogelw. xviii. p. 457, 1893.] 



After giving us some of his experiences among the birds 

 of the Pacific Islands, Dr. Finsch describes and figures from 

 the unique specimen in the St. Petersburg Museum Aj)hano- 

 liinnas monasa (Kittl.) of the island Kushai or XJalan of the 

 Caroline group. This specimen was obtained by Kittlitz in 

 1827, and the species is now probably extinct, as Dr. Finsch, 

 who searched for it in February 1880, was unable to find the 

 bird or to get any intelligence as to its existence. 



79. Flower on the Arrangement of Museums. 



[Address of Sir William H. Flower, K.C.B., D.C.L., F.R.S., &c., 

 President of the Museums Association, on Modern Museums. 8vo. 

 London, 1893.] 



