212 Letters, Extracts from Correspondence, Notices, fyc. 
in one volume 4to (1064 pp.)^ and with seventy-five plates of 
hitherto unfigured species. We understand that the first volume 
of Dr. Brewer’s work on N. American Oology will also be ready 
very shortly. Mr. J. W. Audubon also announces the republica¬ 
tion, by subscription, of his father’s celebrated and gigantic work 
on the Birds of North America. It will be issued in forty-four 
Numbers, of ten plates each, at ten dollars per Number, so that 
the cost of the new work will only amount to half of that of the 
original. A copy of the first part may be seen at Messrs. 
Triibner’s. _____ 
At Stevens’s Auction-rooms, on April 2nd, a skin of the new 
Cassowary ( Casuarius bennettii) was sold for jBIO to a London 
dealer. This bird, which was shipped from Sydney for England 
in good health, was accidentally killed during the voyage. It 
has since, we are happy to say, passed into the collection of the 
British Museum. The arrival of a fresh pair of these same 
birds, which were sent off from Sydney in February last as a 
present to the Zoological Society by Dr. Bennett, may shortly 
be expected. 
A sale of eggs obtained by Mr. Wolley’s collectors in Lap- 
land, chiefly in the year 1858, took place at the same Auction- 
rooms on March 8th. The three eggs that fetched the highest 
prices were those of the Smew ( Mergus albellus) —out of the nest 
spoken of in Number I. of ‘ The Ibis’— £5 5s.; the Bar-tailed 
Godwit ( Limosa rufa), £4 8 s. ; and the Buffon’s Skua ( Lestris 
parasiticus), £4. Of the latter egg, Mr. Wolley remarks, in a 
letter ,—“ This is a very difficult egg to get, because it seems 
doubtful whether the bird breeds at all upon the coast, though 
Richardson’s Skua does so in plenty, all round the North Cape, 
and down the Russian coast.” The eggs of the Waxwing ( Am - 
pelis garrula), of which there were nine in the sale, averaged 
about £3 each. The Pine-Grosbeaks’ ( Strobilophaga enucleator ) 
sold for £2 2s. There were likewise in the catalogue eggs of 
the Spotted Redshank ( Totanus fuscus ), Lapp Owl (Strise lap- 
ponica), Siberian Jay ( Perisoreus infaustus ), Siberian Tit ( Parus 
sibiricus), and the Anser finmarchicus of Gunner—all first disco¬ 
vered by Mr. Wolley. 
