In preparation, 



THE BIEDS OF NEW ZEALAND. 



By WALTER BUIXER, E.L.S. 



AUTHOR OF THE N. Z. EXHIBITION ESSAY ON NEW-ZEALAND ORNITHOLOGY. 



The work will comprise an Introductory Treatise, a short diagnosis of 

 each Species, synoptical lists of the Xomenclature, and a Popular History 

 and Description of all the known Species ; illustrated by about Tiventy-Jtve 

 Coloured Plates of New-Zealand Birds by a competent artist. 



About 60Q pages — Royal 8vo. Price £2 2s. 



JoKN Van Voorst : Paternoster Eow, London, by whom Subscribers' 

 names will be received. 



THE GAKE-FOWL OR GREAT AUK. 



A beautiful stuffed old male specimen of ALCA ITVIPENNIS for sale. 

 Apply to Herr "Wilhelm ScHLtriEE, Landwehrstraesse, No. 17, HaUe a. S., 

 Prussia. 



BONES OP THE DODO {mdus ineptus) EEOM 

 MAURITIUS. 



Mk. E. inGGINS (successor to Mr. SAMUEL STEVENS), 24 Blooms- 

 bury Street, London, W.O., has ou sale tivo very fine sets of Dodos' bones, 

 inchiding sternum and sacrum, received from George Clark, Esq., of Mauritius, 

 the discoverer of these interesting relics. ( Vide ' Ibis,' 1866, p.. 141, and Prof. 

 Owen's Memoir, Trans. Zool. Soc. vol. vi. part 2.) 



Price of each set £12. Further details supplied on application. 



