AVES. 
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While certain species of birds have entirely vanished as culti- 
vation and human population extends, a few others have appeared 
and even established themselves in the settled districts. 
Allport, Morton. Remarks on Mr. Krefft^s ^ Notes on the 
Fauna of Tasmania.^ Op cit. July 1868, pp. 33-36. 
With Mr. Krefft^s ^ Notes ^ we are not acquainted. Mr. All- 
port points out a few inaccuracies in them, and adds some eight 
species * to the ornis of the island. 
Diggles, Sylvester. The Ornithology of Australia. Queens- 
land. Imp. 4to. Parts XVI-XX., pis. 
Five parts of this work, containing a large number of figures 
(which will be found mentioned under the families they repre- 
sent) , have reached us since we last noticed it (Zool. Record, iv. 
p. 64). 
Finsch, O. (See Haast, J., and Hartlaub, G., and Finscii, O.) 
Gould, John. On Two New Australian Birds. Proc. Zool. 
Soc. 1868, pp. 74r-76. [See CucuUdcc and Piitida;.'] 
Haast, Julius. Beobachtungen fiber einige Vogel Neu-See- 
lands. Journ. ffir Orn. 1868, pp. 238-245. 
This is a compilation by Dr. Finsch from a letter of Dr. HaasFs, 
and from the latter’s ‘ Report,’ which we mentioned last year 
(Zool. Record, iv. p. 66), and contains a few corrections of the 
former’s translation of Mr. Buller’s Essay’ {tom, cit. p. 64). 
Twenty-one species are noticed, besides the skeletons of seven 
species of Dinornis in the museum at Christchurch, New 
Zealand. 
Hartlaub, G., and Finsch, O. On a collection of Birds from 
the Pelew Islands. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1868, pp. 4-9, 
pis. ii., iii. 
A former collection from these islands, among others, was no- 
ticed last year (Zool. Record, iv. p. 66). The present contains 
thirty-five species, of which six, belonging to the families Meli- 
pliaffidfv, Laniidoif Muscicapida (2) , SylvHdcCy and ColumhidcSy are 
new. Two new genera are made, and their types figured. A 
variety of useful particulars are given with respect to other birds 
of the islands. 
, . Additional Notes on the Ornithology of the Pelew 
Islands. Tom,, cit. pp. 116-118. 
Eighteen species (of which one belonging to Meliphagidm, 
is new) are added to the ornis of the group, which now numbers 
forty-one species. Of these, eight are peculiar to the islands. 
* Some of them had previously been mentioned hy the author, at a meeting 
of the Society in October 1865 (op, cit. 1866, p. 106). 
t The authors say that “ two ” are undescrihed, hut we are unable to find 
the second. 
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