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THE 
AVIFAUNA OF LAYSAN 
AND THE 
NEIGHBOURING ISLANDS 
With a complete: history: to date of the: Birds: of the 
Hawaiian Possessions: 
_ | By The Rt. Hon. Lord ROTHSCHILD, Ph.D., F.R.S.,F.L.S., &. 
Ilustrated’ with 55 finely-coloured: plates: by KEULEMANS and 
THORBURN, 26 collotype plates &:2 plates:of generic:charactersi 
Bs This: sumptuous work: deals: with am interesting portion of the: Pacific. 
ae felands. In the words. of the:author;“ Scattered about in a north-westerly 
direction from the Sandwich Islandsare:a number of emall islands, rocks; 
BN Gif and reefs—namely, Necker Isle, French Frigate Shoals, Gardner Island, 
iN Maro Reef, Lisianky, Laysan or Moller Island, and some others, Although 
, ornithologists have had their eyeson these islands for a long time, they had 





lai not been: trodden by the foot of any ornithologist until | sent my collector, 
ar Henry Palmer, to explore them.” The work deals chiefly with Laysan, 
| en which island land birds are found, but there is a complete list of birds of 
a the Sandwich Islands and a list of species introduced into the islands. 

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Illustrations of the 
Game Birds & Water Fowl | 
: of South America 
. By H. GRONVOLD. 
Comprising. 38 hand-coloured plates illustrating 55 species, with 
title and contents.and short descriptive netes.on the species figured. 
Forms a cempanion: volume:to: Braboucne: and Chubb's “ Birds of South — 
America; Vol. I. (List)).2!s. net. 
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