been in progress and in preparation. For En<:land alone, 

 besides Lord Lilford's ' Coloured Figures of British Birds/ 

 we Lave Dr. Sbarpe's ' Flandbook ' in the ' Naturalist's 

 Library/ and "Wvatt's ' British Birds ' ; and ]\Ir. Dresser has 

 now announced the speedy appearance of his long promised 

 Supplement to the ' Birds of Europe/ Two important 

 uorkS; wliich^, howeverj ai'e making somcAvhat slower pro- 

 gress — ]Meuzbier'"s * Ornithologie du Turkestan' and 

 Pleske's ' Ornithographia Kossica' — are likewise being 

 issued in Russia. To illustrate the Ornis, until recently so 

 little known, of the Hawaiian archipelago, we liave two 

 splendidly illustrated works both approaching completion; I 

 need hardly say I refer to Messrs. Wilson and Evans's 

 ' Aves Hawaiienses/ and to ]\Ir. Rothschild's *■ Avifauna of 

 Laysan ; ' both of them production? creditable alike to British 

 science and to British art. 



In ]\Ionographs the list is perhaps not quite so long 

 as usualj but Dr. Sharpe's ' Paradise- birds/ Mr. Elliot's 

 'Pittas/ and Mr. Butler's 'Foreign Finches"' are alike 

 in process of issue^ -while Messrs. Sharpe and Wyatt 

 have just brought to a completion their 'Monograph of the 

 HirundinidfC ' and our friend Heer F. E. Blaauw is working 

 hard at an illustrated volume on the Cranes. 

 . I must also not omit to hope for a speedy completion of 

 jNIessrs. Newton and Gadow's 'Dictionary of Birds/ which, 

 as we must all be aware, "when brought to a conclusion, will 

 be of material assistance to the working ornithologist. 



Section III. The Great ' Catalogue or Birds.' 



Since the opening of our last Session the 22nd volume of the 

 ' British Museum Catalogue of Birds/ containing the Game 

 Birds, by Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant, and the 23rd volume, 

 containing the Rails, Cranes, and Bustards, by Dr. Bowdler 

 Shai'pe, have been published. From the last Parliamentary 

 Report of the British Museum we learn that vol. xxiv. of 

 this important work will contain the Waders, by Dr. 

 Sharpe; vol, xxv. the Gulls and Petrels, by^Mr. H. Saunders 

 and Mr. O. Salvin ; vol. xxvi. the Divers, Pelicans, Cor- 



