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winter, and to form a change for the "regulation-seal." 

 "The legs and wings of the Skua are skinny, but the 

 breast is full and plump." Another luxury for the winter 

 was the egg of the Adelia Penguin. In the second volume 

 are several excellent illustrations of this bird and its nestinjr- 

 places. The satisfaction felt by the gatherers of their eggs 

 is quite manifest in their faces. 



In Dr. Wilson's appendix to the second volume will be 

 found a full summary of the ornithological results arrived 

 at by the Expedition. But as he has in preparation a 

 special volume on the Vertebrates of the Antarctic Lands 

 and Seas, which is nearly ready for publication, we may 

 defer our remarks on this subject to a future occasion. 

 There is no doubt, however, that, as Dr. Wilson himself 

 remarks, the position of the headquarters of the Expedition 

 in 80° S. lat. was, " so far as Birds are concerned," too far 

 south. In the pack-ice and during the cruise along the 

 coast of South Victoria Land only twelve species of Birds 

 were met with, and this number, "except for an occasional 

 straggler," was reduced to three in the winter-quarters at 

 Cape Armitage. 



56. Sharpe on the Progress of Ornithology in 1904. 



[Zoological Record, Vol. XLI. 1904. III. Aves. By R. Bowdler 

 Sharpe, LL.D. &c. 72 pp. Price 6s. 1905.] 



We have again the pleasure of calling attention to the 

 early appearance of the " Aves " of the ' Zoological Record ' 

 for 1904, and to the easy terms on which this most useful 

 publication may now be obtained. 



After a very short Preface, in which the progress made in 

 1904 by Reichenow, Ridgway, Hartert, and Shelley in four 

 of the principal ornithological works in course of publication 

 is mentioned, the Recorder passes to a full list of the titles 

 of the books and papers relating to Ornithology issued 

 during the year. They are 679 in number, the corre- 

 sponding number in 1903 having been 7.24 and in 1902 

 627. We observe that this list includes the names of many 

 slight papers which must be allowed to be of little scientific 



