138 Recently published Ornithological Works. 
Royal Society,’ two essays relating to our branch of zoology— 
a memoir by Dr. Gunther and Mr. E. Newton on the extinct 
birds of Rodriguez, and one by Mr. E. Newton and Mr. J. W. 
Clark on the osteology of the Solitaire. As regards the first 
of these, the most interesting new point is, perhaps, the dis- 
covery by Mr. Slater’s Jabours of an extinct Starling in 
Rodriguez (Necropsar redericanus), allied to the Fregilupus 
of Réunion. The memoir on the Solitaire is also worthy of 
careful study. After a thorough examination of the very 
extensive materials submitted to them, the authors have come 
to the conclusion that “there does not seem to be a single 
bone in the skeleton of Pezophaps solitaria which is not hable 
to greater or less individual variation of some kind or other,” 
not only as regards absolute size, but also as regards the 
relative proportions of the different parts. 
15. Radakoff on the Birds of the Lower Danube and Pruth. 
[Ornithologische Bemerkungen iiber Bessarabien, Moldau, Walachei, 
Bulgarien und Ost-Rumelien. Von W.N. Radakoff. Bull. Soe. Imp. d. 
Nat. d. Moscou, 1879, no. 1, p. 150. ] 
A series of short notes on 203 birds observed during the 
author’s company with the Russian armies in the campaign 
of 1876. “Aquila clanga” is stated to be ‘“itiberall sesshaft.” 
16. Ramsay on the Zoology of the Solomon Islands. 
[Notes on the Zoology of the Solomon Islands. By E. P. Ramsay, 
F.L.S. &c. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. W. iv. p. 65. ] 
In this paper (an abstract of which was published in 
‘Nature’ of June last) Mr. Ramsay gives an account of a 
collection, containing 50 examples of Mammals and 350 of 
Birds, made by Mr. J. Cockerell at three “ stations ” on the 
Solomon Islands, in company with Capt. Brodie of the 
schooner ‘ Ariel.’ The localities mentioned are Guadalcanar 
Island, Cape Pitt, and Savo. Cape Pitt, we find, is on the 
Island of Georgia; but it would have been better if Mr. 
Ramsay had been a little more definite about his localities. 
The new species described are :— 
