EEFERENCE NOTES. 



1. On the authority of Wallace. It would appear, however, from the 

 observations of Taczanowski (" Ornithologie du Perou," vol. i, p. 321, 1884), 

 that the bird is less rare in the region indicated than has been generally 

 supposed. 



2. Jeitteles, " Verhandl-. d. zool. hot. Gcsell. Wien," 1862, p. 262. 



3. To this list might also be added the chipmunk, Arctic hare, lynx, wolf, 

 walrus, several seals, &c. 



4. Allen, " North American Pinnipeds," pp. 609 et seq. 



5. Allen, " North American Rodentia," " U. S. Geol. Survey," vol. xi. 



6. "Jlonograph of the Strepomatidas," p. xli, Smithson. Misc. Pub., 253. 



7. " Island Life," pp. 20-22. 



8. Seebohm, " Catalogue of Birds," British Museum, v, p. 328. 



8a. Since the preparation of the text a large number of additional 

 species, and several genera, of paradise-birds have been described from New 

 Guinea by Finsoh, Meyer, Forbes, and others. 



9. The family comprises some thirty-five or more species (Beddome, 

 "Ann. Mag. Nat. History," January, 1886). 



10. Gray, " Catalogue of Edentate Mammalia," British Museum, 1869, 

 p. 389. 



11. Brehm, " Thierleben," i, p. 391. 



12. "Ceylon," ii, p. 287. 



12a. "Proc. Zool. Soc," London, pp. 221, 222. 



13. Newton, " Encycl. Brit.," article " Humming-Bird," ninth ed., xu, 

 p. 359. 



14. Mosenthal and Harting, " Ostriches and Ostrich Farming," p. 28^ 



15. " Geograph. Distrib. of Animals," ii, p. 330. 



16. Lyell, " Princiijles of Geology," eleventh cd., ii, p. 369. 



17. " Encycl. Brit.," ninth ed., iii, p. 461. 



18. Lyell, " Principles of Geology," eleventh ed., ii, p. 866. 



