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  Recently 
  published 
  Ornithological 
  Works. 
  

  

  ' 
  Birds 
  of 
  New 
  Zealand/ 
  but 
  lately 
  referred 
  by 
  him 
  to 
  Apteryx 
  

   maxima 
  of 
  Verrcaux 
  (Trans. 
  N. 
  Z. 
  Inst. 
  xiii. 
  p. 
  602). 
  Four 
  

   specimens 
  were 
  brought 
  to 
  Wellington 
  alive, 
  and 
  thence 
  

   shipped 
  to 
  Europe. 
  These 
  are, 
  no 
  doubt, 
  tbe 
  birds 
  belong- 
  

   ing 
  to 
  Mr. 
  Walter 
  Rothschild, 
  which 
  were 
  placed 
  under 
  

   the 
  care 
  of 
  Mr. 
  Doggctt, 
  of 
  Cambridge, 
  Avhere 
  we 
  had 
  the 
  

   opportunity 
  of 
  examining 
  them 
  in 
  August 
  1891. 
  They 
  are, 
  

   we 
  believe, 
  the 
  only 
  specimens 
  of 
  this 
  fine 
  species 
  ever 
  seen 
  

   in 
  Europe. 
  

  

  9. 
  Bilttikofer 
  on 
  the 
  Genus 
  Tatare. 
  

  

  [The 
  Specimens 
  of 
  the 
  Geuus 
  Tatare 
  in 
  the 
  Leyden 
  Museum. 
  By 
  

   J. 
  liiittikofer. 
  Notes 
  Leyd, 
  Mus. 
  xiv. 
  p. 
  13.] 
  

  

  The 
  author 
  discusses 
  the 
  specimens 
  of 
  the 
  genus 
  Tatare 
  

   in 
  the 
  Leyden 
  Museum. 
  Of 
  these 
  7 
  are 
  referred 
  to 
  T. 
  longi- 
  

   rostris, 
  1 
  to 
  T. 
  mendame, 
  and 
  1 
  to 
  T. 
  luscinia. 
  

  

  10. 
  Bilttikofer 
  on 
  Thamnolsea 
  nigra. 
  

  

  [On 
  the 
  Specific 
  Vahie 
  of 
  Levaillant's 
  Traquet 
  Commandeur. 
  By 
  J. 
  

   Bilttikofer. 
  Notes 
  Leyd. 
  Mus. 
  xiv. 
  p. 
  17.] 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Bilttikofer 
  gives 
  the 
  synonymy 
  and 
  special 
  characters 
  

   of 
  Levaillant's 
  Traquet 
  Commandeur 
  [Thamnolcea 
  nigra) 
  

   of 
  West 
  Africa, 
  and 
  remarks 
  on 
  its 
  allied 
  forms 
  of 
  South 
  

   and 
  East 
  Africa. 
  

  

  11. 
  Bilttikofer 
  on 
  Birds 
  from 
  Liberia. 
  

  

  [On 
  the 
  Collections 
  of 
  Birds 
  sent 
  by 
  the 
  late 
  A. 
  T. 
  Demery 
  from 
  the 
  

   Sulymah 
  River 
  (W. 
  Africa). 
  By 
  J. 
  Bilttikofer. 
  Notes 
  Leyd. 
  Mus. 
  xiv. 
  

   p. 
  19.] 
  

  

  The 
  last 
  collections 
  of 
  Archey 
  Thomas 
  Demery 
  — 
  an 
  ener- 
  

   getic 
  naturalist, 
  whose 
  death 
  in 
  Liberia 
  was 
  announced 
  in 
  

   1891 
  — 
  have 
  now 
  been 
  received, 
  and 
  Mr. 
  Bilttikofer 
  gives 
  us 
  

   an 
  account 
  of 
  the 
  birds, 
  Avhich 
  were 
  obtained 
  at 
  the 
  western 
  

   end 
  of 
  Liberia, 
  on 
  the 
  frontiers 
  of 
  Sierra 
  Leone. 
  They 
  are 
  

   referred 
  to 
  96 
  species, 
  10 
  of 
  which 
  are 
  new 
  to 
  Liberia. 
  

   Critical 
  notes 
  on 
  the 
  Weavers 
  of 
  the 
  genus 
  Malimbus 
  and 
  

   other 
  species 
  are 
  added. 
  

  

  