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England by Mr. Cordeaux ; the west coast of England by Mr. 

 Philip Kermode ; and those for the coasts of Ireland by Messrs. 

 K. M. Barrington and A. Gr. More, these gentlemen having the 

 advantage of the advice and direction of Professor Newton, who 

 is also a member of the Committee. 



The third report of the Committee is now before us, and 

 embodies a large number of statistics, from which the Committee 

 will no doubt later be enabled to deduce valuable conclusions. 

 We need not occupy space here by giving extracts from the 

 Report, for we make no doubt that every ornithologist will secure 

 a copy for perusal in its entirety. 



A Manual of the Birds of New Zealand. By Walter L. 

 Buller. 8vo, pp. 107, with thirty-seven uncoloured plates. 

 G. Didsbury, Wellington, N. Z. Triibner & Co., London, 

 1882. 



Mr. Buller's well-known quarto work on the ' Birds of New 

 Zealand,' published in 1872, with its admirable coloured plates by 

 Keulemans, has long been out of print and scarce. A new edition 

 is announced, but pending the preparation of this the author has 

 isued an octavo Manual with the above title, and illustrated with 

 facsimiles of the plates in the quarto work, reduced by photo- 

 lithography, but uncoloured. 



As tending to encourage and promote the study of Ornitho- 

 logy in the Antipodes by placing a reliable yet inexpensive guide 

 within reach of naturalists and collectors, Mr. Buller has been 

 well-advised in this publication, which, we have no doubt, will be 

 found useful by many, and especially by those who do not possess 

 the former and larger work. 



We must confess, however, that we are disappointed with the 

 text, which does not exhibit that advance and improvement upon 

 the quarto which we should have expected after an interval of ten 

 years. The ' Transactions of the New Zealand Institute ' contain 

 many valuable records printed during this interval which might 

 have been quoted by Mr. Buller with advantage ; as, for example, 

 that relating to the occurrence in New Zealand of the Australian 

 Roller (or Dollar-bird, as it is termed by the colonists), Eury- 

 stonuis pacificus (Trans. N. Z. Instit., vol. xiv., p. 265). 



