Editor of our 'Bullerin' u likewise pr^j.artd to see through 

 the press. Although the piares of this work, as -we under- 

 staudj have mostly been ah-ri.dy drawn and coloured under 

 Seebolim^s superintendence^ 1 fear that in this case,, as 

 regards the letterpress, the Editor will hare a long and by 

 1:10 ir^eaus easy task ro perforni. 



"Passing on tootlier ornitho'o-ical publications wliich have 

 beeu issued since the eomuie;icc.iient of our last Session, I 

 may point out that three aadirioual volumes of the British 

 ]\Iuseuiu Catalogue of Birds, vrhieh. v/jicri I spoke to you hist 

 yt-ar, I alluded to a-- OLing nearly vec^'jv, have all been 

 publi^lled^ aud that volume ::xvi. ('to contain the Herons, 

 Pelicans, Grebes, I' ivers, and Penguins) is now only required 

 to complete this- most impoj-rant work. Captain Shelley's 

 first volume of Ijis work on African ornithology has also been 

 puVdished. Other important orniiliological works lately 

 brouglit out are the new edition of j\Ir. Pi.idgway's ' Manual' 

 of North- American Birds' and Dr. Mivart's beautifully 

 illustrated ' J\Ionograph of the Lories.' 



"As regards ornitiaological booKs in course of preparation 

 or in contemplation (besides the posthumous works of which 

 I have already spoken), I am pleased to say that the Index 

 to the 4th, 5th, and 6th series of 'The Ibis' (1877-94) is 

 making good progress, the first portion of it being already in 

 type. Mr. Beddard has been hard at work on his ^Anatomy 

 of Birds' all the year, and hopes to have it ready foj' the 

 press in 1897. Mr. Joseph TMii taker is projecting a volume 

 on the Birds of Tunis, in which he will put together the 

 results recently achieved by himself and other collectors in 

 that interesting district of North Africa. 



" Perhaps the most remarkable event in ornithology ,that 

 has lately been divulged to us is the characterization of the 

 gigantic bird of the Dijjrofoclon-heds of South Australia^ 

 which, as announct,d in the last number of 'The Ibis/ 

 Dr. Stirling has named Gern/ornis newtorii. We are not yet 

 in possession of a full account of this extinct monster, but 

 have only been told that it is, in fact, a gigantic Emu, just 

 as the Dijjrotodon of the s:me epoch is an exaggerated 



