THE GENERAL SUBJECT. 
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cephala squalida, and the habitat of Hypothymis menadensis is shown to 
be New Guinea, not Celebes. \Cypselidaiy Pycnonotidce, Laniidm^ Musci- 
capidceJ] 
OuSTALET, E. Observations sur le groupe des Ibis, et descriptions de 
deux especes nouvelles. N. Arch. Mus. (2) i. pp. 167-183, pis. vi. 
& vii. 
The Ihidinoe are classed as a sub-family of the Tantalidm, and 8 genera, 
in 2 sections, are enumerated, with a list of their component species, 
and full descriptions and plates relating to I. harmandi and I. gigantea 
\lhididai\. 
. Sur quelques Oiseaux de la Papouasie. Ass. Sc. Fr. Bull. No. 633, 
p. 247. 
One genus and 4 species are described as new. [See Chalcospitia {Psitta- 
cidce), Merops {Meropidce), Cheno{r)rhamphus, g. n. {Muscicapidm), Mega- 
podius ( Megapodiidcey ] . 
. Observations nouvelles sur les Oiseaux coureurs de la Papouasie. 
Op. cit. No. 539, pp. 349 & 350. , 
Casuarius salvadorii is described as new. 
. See also Casuariidce ; Coccycolius, g. n. [^Sturnidce^, Eudyptula 
ISpheniscidce]. 
Owen, Richard. Memoirs of the Extinct Wingless Birds of New Zea- 
land, with an Appendix on those in England, Australia, &c. London : 
1878, 2 vols., 4to, pp. 512, & pis. 130. 
This is mainly a collection of the author’s detached memoirs in the 
Trans. Zool. Soc., with some additions both in the text and the plates 
\_Dinornithidce^ AlcidcB]. 
[This work is dated on the back 1878, in which year it was actually 
published, but the title-page bears date 1879.] 
. On Argillornis longipennis, Owen, a large bird of flight from the 
Eocene clay of Sheppey. J. G. Soc. xxxiv. pp. 124-130, pi. vi. 
The remains are considered to be these of a long winged natatorial 
bird, most nearly related to Diomedea^ but larger than D. exulans, and 
the above new generic and specific names are given to it. On the plate, 
its remains and corresponding bones of D. exulans are compared [^Procel- 
lariidce]. 
. On the Solitaire (Didus solitarius, Gm. ; Pezophaps solitariuSj 
Strkl.). Ann. N. H. (5) i. pp. 87-97, pis. vii. & viii. 
Remarks based on the bones, completing two nearly entire skeletons, 
brought by the Transit of Venus Expedition from the island of Rod- 
riguez, several portions not hitherto described being here noticed. 
l^Dididce.'] 
Palacky, Johann, tlber die Vogelsfluglinien in Asien. SB. bohm. 
Ges. 1878, pp. 161-162. 
On the travelling routes of migratory birds in Asia. 
