﻿Recently 
  published 
  Ornithological 
  Works. 
  137 
  

  

  the 
  four 
  wliich 
  preceded 
  it. 
  The 
  series 
  of 
  maps 
  contains 
  not 
  

   only 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  whole 
  area 
  treated, 
  but 
  also 
  separate 
  charts 
  of 
  

   Rum, 
  Eigg, 
  Tiree, 
  and 
  other 
  islauds 
  which 
  are 
  not 
  so 
  well 
  

   known. 
  The 
  physical 
  features 
  of 
  Argyll 
  and 
  the 
  Inner 
  

   Hebrides 
  are 
  very 
  fully 
  described 
  and 
  illustrated 
  by 
  these 
  

   maps. 
  

  

  Of 
  the 
  368 
  species 
  of 
  birds 
  attributed 
  to 
  Great 
  Britain 
  by 
  

   the 
  most 
  recent 
  authorities 
  no 
  less 
  than 
  210 
  have 
  been 
  ascer- 
  

   tained 
  to 
  be 
  resident 
  in 
  or 
  migrants 
  to 
  the 
  area 
  comprised 
  in 
  

   this 
  volume. 
  Amongst 
  these, 
  the 
  rarest, 
  we 
  suppose, 
  is 
  

   Xema 
  sabinii, 
  of 
  which 
  an 
  example 
  in 
  adult 
  plumage 
  was 
  shot 
  

   on 
  Loch 
  Spelve, 
  Mull, 
  in 
  September 
  1883. 
  

  

  28. 
  Hutton 
  on 
  the 
  Moas. 
  

  

  [The 
  Moas 
  of 
  New 
  Zealand. 
  By 
  Captain 
  F. 
  W. 
  Hutton, 
  F.G.S. 
  Trans. 
  

   New 
  Zealand 
  Inst. 
  xxiv. 
  p. 
  93.] 
  

  

  We 
  have 
  already 
  mentioned 
  the 
  abstract 
  of 
  this 
  memoir 
  

   (Ibis, 
  1892, 
  p. 
  565), 
  which 
  is 
  of 
  great 
  importance, 
  as 
  cou- 
  

   taiuing 
  an 
  excellent 
  resume 
  of 
  the 
  present 
  state 
  o£ 
  our 
  

   knowledge 
  of 
  the 
  Dinornithes. 
  We 
  are 
  glad 
  to 
  observe 
  that 
  

   Mr. 
  Lydekker 
  has 
  taken 
  up 
  the 
  question 
  of 
  the 
  discrepancy 
  

   between 
  his 
  arrangement 
  of 
  his 
  genera 
  and 
  that 
  of 
  Capt. 
  

   Hutton, 
  and 
  has 
  already 
  given 
  us 
  explanations 
  of 
  the 
  

   subject. 
  (See 
  ' 
  Natural 
  Science,' 
  1892, 
  p. 
  588.) 
  

  

  Capt. 
  Hutton's 
  conclusions 
  as 
  to 
  the 
  date 
  of 
  extinctiou 
  

   of 
  the 
  Moas 
  are 
  (1) 
  that 
  in 
  the 
  North 
  Island 
  "^^ 
  we 
  have 
  

   undoubted 
  proofs 
  that 
  the 
  ancestors 
  of 
  the 
  present 
  Maoris 
  

   killed 
  and 
  ate 
  Moas," 
  and 
  that 
  they 
  were 
  probably 
  exter- 
  

   minated 
  " 
  not 
  less 
  than 
  four 
  or 
  five 
  hundred 
  years 
  ago 
  '■■; 
  

   (2) 
  that 
  in 
  the 
  South 
  Island, 
  where 
  the 
  fresh 
  remains 
  have 
  

   been 
  found, 
  the 
  date 
  of 
  extermination 
  was 
  probably 
  a 
  hundred 
  

   years 
  later. 
  

  

  29. 
  Junker's 
  Travels 
  in 
  Africa. 
  

  

  [(i.) 
  Travels 
  in 
  Africa 
  during 
  the 
  years 
  1879-1883. 
  By 
  Dr. 
  Wilhelm 
  

   Junker. 
  Translated 
  from 
  the 
  German 
  by 
  A. 
  H. 
  Keane, 
  F.R.6.S, 
  

   London: 
  1891. 
  

  

  