Recently published Ornithological Works. 163 



interesting, since positive evidence of its former existence 

 there had not been recorded. Mr. W. F. Murdoch, of Half- 

 Moon Bay, brought the discovery to the notice of Prof. 

 Benham, and allowed him to examine the specimens. They 

 consist of a femur, tibio-tarsus, tarso-metatarsus, back of a 

 cranium, and two terminal phalanges, and belong to Eury- 

 apteryx (Efueus) crassa, a species from five to six feet in 

 height, fairly common on the South Island. Remains of two 

 specimens were found, one being much smaller than the 

 other, 



3. BuckniWs List of the Birds of Cyprus. 



[Cyprus Natural History Society, Bulletin No. 11. A List of the 

 Birds of Cyprus, compiled for the Cyprus Natural History Society by 

 John A. S. Bucknill. 8vo, pp. 27. Nicosia, 1910.] 



After a few prefatory remarks on the principal investi- 

 gators of the Ornithology of Cyprus and their |)ublications, 

 Mr. Bucknill gives a list of the 290 species of birds as yet 

 known to occur there, taken from his articles " On the 

 Ornithology of Cyprus,'^ published in this Journal in 1909 

 and 1910^. A few notes are added to the name of each 

 bird. 



4. Butler on Foreign Birds for Aviaries. 



[Foreign Birds for Cage and Aviary. By Arthur G. Butler, Ph.D. &c. 

 Part II. The Larger Foreign Birds. Loudon, 1910. 305 pp., small 4to.] 



The second part of Mr. Butler's work finishes his account 

 of the cage-birds to be met with in the European markets. 

 In the first part the smaller forms were described, in the 

 second we now find the larger, the two parts together 

 containing accounts of about a thousand species. 



In the twenty chapters of the present volume the author 

 has described such members of the groups of Starlings, 

 Bower-birds, Paradise-birds, Manucodes, Larks, Pittas, 

 Tyrants, Chatterers, Oven-birds, Woodpeckers, Colics, King- 

 fishers, Motmots, Bee-eaters, Toucans, Barbets, Touracous, 



* See ' Ibis,' 1909, p. o69, and 191 0, pp. 1 & .385. 



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