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observed, Mr. Evanses work contains a concentrated essence 
of information on birds which will be most useful as a book 
of reference to all students of our favourite science. 
I should also like to congratulate Messrs. Wilson and 
Evans on the completion of their ^ Aves Hawaiienses/ which 
we have long been looking forward to. The strange avifauna 
of this isolated group of islands was specially worthy of a 
monograph. 
Of equal importance in geographical ornithology are the 
two admirable quarto volumes, published by Dr. A. B. Meyer 
and Mr. L. A. Wiglesworth, on the ‘ Birds of Celebes,^ 
which have reached us since the commencement of our 
last Session. As doubtful territory between the Oriental 
and Australian Regions, Celebes is a locality of special 
importance in the study of zoo-geography, and well worlhy 
of the elaborate care and attention that these authors have 
devoted to it. 
I may also venture to allude to the recent completion of 
Mr. Oates'’s handy little volumes on the Game-Birds of 
India/ by the issue of the second part, and to the good 
progress made by our Editor with Seebohm^s ‘ Monograph of 
the Thrushes,^ the seventh part of which has lately appeared. 
Now, turning to the forthcoming works actually in 
progress, I may mention that our brother member. Dr. A. 
C. Stark, has nearly passed through the press the first of 
four volumes on the ‘ Birds of South Africa,’ which will 
form a part of Mr. W. L. Sclater’s series on the fauna of 
that portion of the Ethiopian Region. Both Mr. Layard’s 
original volume and Dr. Sharpe’s new edition of it are, I 
believe, long since out of print, and it is highly desirable 
that a new and revised account of the birds of that country, 
which is now, and is likely to remain, of such interest to us, 
should be prepared. 1 believe I may truly say that Dr. Stark 
is well qualified, from long personal experience with the avi- 
fauna in question, to prepare such a work. 
Mr. Rothschild’s illustrated monograph on the Casso- 
waries is now also in a forward state, and will shortly be 
published in the Zoological Society’s ^Transactions.’ It 
