TITLES OF WORKSj ETC. 
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Buller, W. L. On some Additions to the Collection of Birds in the 
Colonial Museum. Tr. N. Z. Inst. vii. pp. 224 & 225. 
Six species, with notes thereon, are mentioned in this paper. 
. Note on Rallus modestus. Tom. cit. p. 611. 
Contrary to his former view, the author now admits this species to be 
distinct from i?. dieffenhachi. 
Butler, E. A. Notes on the Avifauna of Mount Aboo and Northern 
Guzerat. Str. Feath. 1875, pp. 437-500. 
A full list [not completed in this vol.], to which A. O. Hume has added 
a number of species ascertained to inhabit the district investigated by 
the author. The paper is thus a very important contribution to the 
knowledge of the local distribution of Indian Birds. 
Caldwell, J. Notes on the Zoology of Rodriguez. P. Z. S. 1875, 
pp. 644-647. 
Gives an account of the discovery in Rodriguez of a nearly perfect 
female skeleton of Pezophaps solitarius, and of one of a male in a less 
complete state. The author thinks that the destruction of the Soli- 
taire is to be attributed to a violent hurricane or other disturbing cause, 
rather than to any other hitherto suggested. 
Cooper, J. G. Notes on Californian Thrushes. Am. Nat. ix. pp. 114- 
116. 
These notes apply to Turdus nanus and T. ustulatus^ and, while cor- 
recting some statements made in the ‘ Ornithology of California ’ respect- 
ing them, the author considers that by priority the names nanus and 
ustulatus should not rank as varieties, but that if any should occupy that 
position they should be swainsoni and pallasi. 
Cope, E. D. On an Extinct Vulturine Bird. P. Ac. Philad. 1875, 
p. 271. 
The matrix containing the fossil described by the author as Cathartes 
umbrosus having been removed from the nostril, the presence of a short 
osseous septum was disclosed, showing that the species should be 
referred not to the new world Cathartidce, but to the old world Vul- 
turidm. Ho, therefore, now proposes to call this fossil species Vultur 
umbrosus. 
CoRDEAUX, John. Notes on the Birds of Heligoland in Mr. Gatke’s 
collection. Ibis, 1875, pp. 172-188. 
The author made good use of a five days’ visit to this wonderful 
asylum of straggling birds in drawing up the list and notes above re- 
ferred to. We hear with a satisfaction in which all ornithologists will 
join, that Mr. Gatke purposes publishing shortly a work on the birds of 
Heligoland, a twenty years’ acquaintance with which qualifies him to 
speak with authority. The present paper supplements the late Dr. 
Blasius’s celebrated article in Naumannia for 1858, and gives an idea of 
the numbers of rare stragglers which have appeared since that date. 
