﻿Recently 
  published 
  Ornithological 
  Works. 
  127 
  

  

  the 
  raraes 
  of 
  71 
  species^ 
  with 
  remarks^ 
  especially 
  on 
  Thamnolaa 
  

   sheUeyi, 
  Sharpe. 
  

  

  6. 
  Bocage 
  on 
  Birds 
  from 
  Dahomey. 
  

  

  [Aves 
  de 
  Dahom6. 
  Por 
  J. 
  V. 
  Barboza 
  clii 
  Bocage. 
  Jorn. 
  Sc. 
  Lisboa, 
  

   (2) 
  vii. 
  p. 
  185.] 
  

  

  M. 
  Barboza 
  gives 
  a 
  list 
  of 
  16 
  species 
  of 
  which 
  specimens 
  

   were 
  obtained 
  during 
  a 
  second 
  visit 
  of 
  Sr. 
  Newton 
  to 
  Dahomey, 
  

   and 
  transmitted 
  to 
  the 
  Lisbon 
  Museum. 
  The 
  specimens 
  

   obtained 
  during 
  Sr. 
  Newton's 
  first 
  visit 
  were 
  worked 
  out 
  by 
  

   de 
  Sousa, 
  and 
  published 
  in 
  the 
  same 
  Journal 
  in 
  1887 
  (see 
  

   Ibis, 
  1887, 
  p. 
  468). 
  

  

  7. 
  BuUer 
  on 
  New 
  Zealand 
  Birds. 
  

  

  [Notes 
  and 
  Observations 
  on 
  New 
  Zealand 
  Birds. 
  By 
  Sir 
  Walter 
  L, 
  

   Buller, 
  K.C.M.G., 
  F.R.S. 
  Trans. 
  New 
  Zealand 
  Inst.^xiv. 
  p. 
  64.— 
  

   Further 
  Notes 
  and 
  Observations 
  on 
  certain 
  species 
  of 
  New 
  Zealand 
  Birds 
  

   (witli 
  Exhibits). 
  Ihid. 
  p. 
  75.] 
  

  

  In 
  these 
  two 
  articles 
  Sir 
  Walter 
  Buller 
  continues 
  his 
  notes 
  

   on 
  the 
  rarer 
  birds 
  of 
  New 
  Zealand 
  and 
  on 
  additions 
  to 
  its 
  

   avifauna. 
  The 
  occurrence 
  of 
  Platycercus 
  eryihrotis, 
  a 
  close 
  

   ally 
  of 
  P. 
  nov(B-zealandi(e 
  , 
  on 
  Antipodes 
  Island, 
  associated 
  

   with 
  P. 
  unicolor 
  (a 
  peculiar 
  endemic 
  species), 
  is 
  certainly 
  a 
  

   very 
  curious 
  fact 
  in 
  distribution. 
  jMany 
  particulars 
  are 
  

   given 
  of 
  the 
  ranges 
  of 
  the 
  Albatrosses, 
  including 
  the 
  newly-» 
  

   differentiated 
  Diomedea 
  regia, 
  and 
  of 
  the 
  different 
  Penguins 
  

   in 
  their 
  breeding-grounds 
  on 
  the 
  Antarctic 
  Islands. 
  It 
  is 
  very 
  

   unsatisfactory 
  to 
  learn 
  that 
  the 
  supposed 
  bevies 
  of 
  the 
  New 
  

   Zealand 
  Quail 
  [Coturnix 
  nov(E-zealandi(B) 
  asserted 
  to 
  have 
  

   been 
  recently 
  met 
  with 
  in 
  the 
  Three-Kings 
  Islands 
  [cf. 
  Birds 
  

   N. 
  Z. 
  i. 
  p. 
  228, 
  footnote) 
  turn 
  out 
  to 
  belong 
  to 
  the 
  Brown 
  

   Quail 
  (^Synoecus 
  australis), 
  introduced 
  from 
  Australia, 
  and 
  

   that 
  the 
  native 
  species 
  is 
  undoubtedly 
  extinct. 
  

  

  8. 
  Buller 
  on 
  Apteryx 
  maxima. 
  

  

  [On 
  the 
  large 
  Kiwi 
  from 
  Stewart 
  Island 
  {Apteryx 
  maxi7na). 
  By 
  Sir 
  

   W. 
  L. 
  Buller. 
  Trans. 
  New 
  Zealand 
  Inst. 
  xxiv. 
  p. 
  91.] 
  

  

  The 
  author 
  gives 
  further 
  particulars 
  concerning 
  the 
  large 
  

   Kiwi 
  of 
  Stewart 
  Island, 
  not 
  recognized 
  as 
  distinct 
  in 
  the 
  

  

  