ORNITHOLOGY I& 1851. 
sold in 371 lots. The largest sum given for any lot, was for four 
Cygnis nigricollis , £160, for the Zoological Gardens. Next, that foi 
Ostriches 6 ?, £70 and £60 respectively, purchased on commission. 
Mr. Mitchell purchased forty-six lots for the gardens, some of the 
more important of which are: — Vultur monachus , Linn., £7, Is.; 
Aquila vulturina , £7 ; Spizaetus belhcosus and coronatus , £16 
each ; Casmarynchus nudicollis, £2, 2s. ; Crax alberti , Fraz., £12, 
10s. ; Numida ptilorhyncha , Licht., £6, 10s. ; Francolinus clapper- 
toni, £3, 3s. ; Grus carunculata, £38 ; Ocydromus australis , £6, 
10s., &c., &c. Some of the other more remarkable lots were — 
Harpyia destructor , Cuv., £25 ; a Serpentarius , £12, both abroad ; 
Bubo maximus, brought £18 ; a Dacelo gigas , £3, 5s. ; Turdus 
(petrocincla) cyana, sold to Sir W. Fielden for £7, 10s. ; a Coracop- 
sis personata , £21, and Anodorhynchus maximiliani , £10 and £16 
(abroad); Pionus gidiehni, Jard., £3; Plyctolopkus leadbeaterii , 
£9 and £11 ; Talegallus lathami , £14 ; Phasianus versicolor , £28 ; 
Cygnus atrata , about £7 each, &c. 
Among the works which have been published in 1851, not strictly 
Ornithological, yet containing much of interest, we have — Narra- 
tive of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, commanded by the late 
Captain Owen Stanley,- R. N., during the years 1846-50. In- 
cluding Discoveries and Surveys in New Guinea , the Louisiade 
Archipelago, &c. By John Macgilliyray, F.R.G.S., Naturalist 
to the Expedition . 2 vols. 8vo. T. & W. Boone. — These inte- 
resting volumes, though bearing on the title-page the date of 1852, 
unquestionably come into our present summary, having been in our 
possession since the middle of December. * In our Contributions 
for 1850 we had occasion to notice the Ornithological part of the 
researches of Mr. Macgillivray during this expedition. The pre- 
sent two volumes contain a detail or journal of the transactions of 
the expedition itself, very interestingly told by its naturalist. The 
Ornithological notices are comparatively limited, as the birds were 
noticed in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society, and the new 
or more important species were figured in Supplement to Birds 
of Australia. But Mr. Macgillivray nevertheless deserves great 
credit fropi his attention to all branches ; and in any new expe- 
* Not sent to us by the publisher. 
