ORNITHOLOGY IN 1850. 
also on a new species of the genus Oultriodes, C. rujipennis, by 
J.R. Gray, F.LS., &e., p. 224. 
The only original ornithological communication in vol. vi., eX- 
clusive of a notice or two in the Miscellanea, is Supplementary 
Notices regarding the Dodo and its Kindred, No. 9, by H. E. 
Srrickianp, M.A., F.Z.S., p. 290; these notices forming a sup- 
plement of the information received from various sources since the 
publication of the work on “ The Dodo and its Kindred,” by Mr. 
Strickland and Dr. Melville, haye been printed in “ Contributions 
for 1850,” p. 123; and copies on thin paper have been distributed 
by post in quarters abroad, where information may be expected to 
be derived. 
The Zoologist, a popular miscellany of natural history, 0 
ducted by Epwarp NewmaN, F.L.S.,Z.S., &c., has reached yolume 
eighth, and contains many ornithological notices, particularly of the 
occurrence of the rarer species of this country. They are in fact 5° 
numerous, that nothing short of an index could give an idea of them; 
but the subjects in the yolume haye the advantage of being class 
fied, and the departments therefore are easily looked over. 
In the “Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of Lot 
don,” edited by the Assistant Secretary, we have “ Notice of ihe 
Remains of the Dinormis and other Birds,” recently collected by 
Mr. Walter Mantell, in the Middle Island of New Zealand, by 
Gipron A. Mantent, Esq., LLD., &., yol. vi. p. 319. The state- 
ment which Dr, Mantell made to the British Association in Bdit- 
burgh, of the probability of a skin of one of the supposed extinct birds 
forming part of a collection dispatched by his son (Contrib. 1850, 
p. 87), caused its arrival to be watched with considerable interes 
On the arrival of the collection, the existence of the Notornis ¥%* 
proved to be correct, a skin of the bird having been procured by 
Mr. W. Mantell from some sealers in Dusky Bay, who perceiviN 
its tracks upon the snow, had pursued and captured it alive wi 
the assistance of their dogs. It was kept alive for some days, 2” 
afterwards killed and eaten by the crew, Mr. Mantell being fort” 
nately in time to rescue the skin. Since its arrival in this count’: 
-it has been exhibited before the Zoological Society, and identified bY 
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