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Baboons than to any of the Arehipelagian species; by the 
extraordinary Babirusa of Celebes, a type of more African than 
Indian form, and by several anomalous and peculiar birds and 
some Hymenoptera of Celebes determined by Mr. Smith to be 
identical with African, as others with Indian and Chinese species. 
Here is a wide and most interesting field of research, in which I 
have long been working, and which I hope by the assistance of 
my collections to do much to elucidate. 
XLVII.— Recent Ornithological Publications . 
1. English Publications. 
Mr. Gould has issued the whole of the parts of the mag¬ 
nificent series of works upon which he is now engaged, for the 
present year. We have already noticed the 11th part of the 
‘ Birds of Asia/ Of the 6 Humming Birds/ Numbers XVII. 
and XVIII., we need only say, sustain the reputation of the pre¬ 
ceding parts. No less than 270 species of these wonderful 
birds have now been represented; and the two next succeeding 
parts will, we believe, bring Mr. Gould nearly to the close of his 
labours. 
The third number of the ‘ Supplement to the Birds of Au¬ 
stralia/ whether we regard the beauty and novelty of the species 
portrayed, or the excellence of the illustrations, is perhaps one 
of the finest which Mr. Gould has ever issued. The Malurus 
coronatus, Semioptera wallacii, the three species of Nestor , the 
Casuarius bennettii , and the Chlamydera cerviniventris are all 
birds of very great interest, and it will probably be long ere such 
a series of splendid novelties is again brought before the public. 
Many of the species are from localities wide of the Australian 
mainland, but we agree with Mr. Gould in considering that the 
islands in which they originate certainly belong to the same pri¬ 
mary fauna. The birds represented are— 
Malurus coronatus, from N. Australia. 
Semioptera wallacii, from Batchian. 
Psephotus chrysopterygius, from N, Australia. 
Nestor notabilis, from New Zealand (Middle Island). 
- esslingii, from New Zealand. 
——- hypopolius, from New Zealand. 
