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able duration. Dr. Bennett, in terms quoted from the introduc¬ 
tion to Mr. Gould’s well-known ‘ Birds of Australia/ cites several 
instances of this irregular migration, mentioning Nymphicus 
novce-hollandice , Melopsittacus undulatus, Leucosarcia picata, Pe- 
ristera histrionica, Geronticus spinicollis, Threskiornis strictipennis, 
and, above all, T7'ibonyoc ventralis , as especially subject to it. 
The author offers us (pp. 186,187) a description of the egg of 
Menura superba, furnished him by Mr. Gould, of which that 
gentleman states, “up to the present moment (December 1859) 
no correct delineation or description has been given.” We do 
not know whether this observation is meant to refer to the 
account formerly published in the ‘ Birds of xlustralia/ or to 
that of Herr Ludwig Becker in the ‘ Journal fur Ornithoiogie’ 
for 1856, where an egg, said to be of this species, is both de¬ 
lineated (pi. 2. fig. 18) and described (p. 133). Herr Becker’s 
specimen seems not to differ from that of which the account is 
to be found in Dr. Bennett’s pages, more than the eggs of the 
same species often do. 
Should the ‘Gatherings of a Naturalist’ reach a second edi¬ 
tion, we hope the author will give us a clearer explanation of the 
diagram at p. 78, which, he says, will serve to illustrate the pecu¬ 
liar flight of the Albatros. At present it appears to be impossible 
to comprehend it. /|r6o. L 
The ‘Journal of the Royal Dublin Society’ for July and Oc¬ 
tober 1860 contains some “ Notes on the Zoology of the last 
Arctic Expedition under Captain Sir E. L. M‘Clintock,” by Dr. 
David Walker, the ornithological portion of which is an amplifi¬ 
cation of the paper already published by this gentleman in this 
Magazine (‘Ibis,’ 1860, p. 165). We observe that the author 
withdraws from his revised list the name of Anas fuligula, which 
was included by him, in the article just alluded to, and by so 
doing justifies the doubt since expressed on the subject by Pro¬ 
fessor Reinhardt in his paper on the Birds of Greenland pub¬ 
lished in our last Number (‘Ibis,’ 1861, p. 1). We think it 
a matter of regret that Dr. Walker should have quoted, so much 
as he has done, from Edwards, Richardson, and Temminck, with 
respect to the geographical distribution of species; for many of 
