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Reptiles and Amphibians, Birds, and Fishes which have been 
met with in the county, including the Fishes of the Moray Firth. 
The other portion of the work must be sufficiently familiar to 
our readers to render comments upon it unnecessary. We have 
no doubt there are many who will be glad to possess it in its 
present handy and portable form. 
A Last of Irish Birds: showing the Species contained in the 
Science and Art Museum, Dublin. By A. G. Mors, F.L.S., 
Curator of the Natural History Museum. 8vo, pp. 82. 
Dublin: Thom & Co. 1885. 
Aurnouer intended chiefly as a catalogue of the species of 
birds preserved in the Science and Art Museum, Dublin, this 
timely publication is practically a key to the Irish avifauna. On 
looking carefully through it, two facts at once suggest themselves. 
The first is that several species reputed to have been met with in 
Ireland have been included in the list on too slender evidence ; 
the second is that, owing to the more careful attention which of 
late years has been paid to Ornithology in Ireland, many other 
species not known to Thompson as Irish, have, since his day, 
been well ascertained to visit that country, and even to breed 
there. It would seem. from Mr. More’s “ List,” that he has not 
overlooked this, but has obviously endeavoured to sift the claims 
of all the rarer birds which have been hitherto included in the 
Irish catalogue, and to add fresh instances of the occurrence in 
Ireland of species which hitherto have been only noticed there in 
one or two instances. 
We understand that this ‘‘ List” is intended to pave the way 
for a new edition of Thompson’s ‘ Natural History of Ireland,’ 
which has been long needed, and we do not doubt that Mr. More 
will be glad to receive assistance from all those whose oppor- 
tunities may enable them to be of use in collecting information. 
Sixth Report on the Migration of Birds in the Spring and Autumn 
of 1884. By a Committee of the British Association. 
8vo, pp. 186. London: West, Newman & Co. 1885. 
Tue Sixth Annual Report of this Committee forms a thick 
pamphlet of 186 pages, and comprises observations taken at 
