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interesting, since positive evidence of its former existence 
there had not been recorded. Mr. W. F. Murdoch, of Half- 
Moon Bay, brought the discovery to the notice of Prof. 
Benham, and allowed him to examine the specimens. They 
consist of a femur, tibio-tarsus, tarso-metatarsus, back of a 
cranium, and two terminal phalanges, and belong to Eury - 
apteryx (Emeus) crassa , a species from five to six feet in 
height, fairly common on the South Island. Itemains of two 
specimens were found, one being much smaller than the 
other. 
3. BuckniWs List of the Birds of Cyprus. 
[Cyprus Natural History Society, Bulletin No. 11. A List of the 
Birds of Cyprus, compiled for the Cyprus Natural History Society by 
John A. S. Bucknill. 8vo, pp. 27. Nicosia, 1910.] 
After a few prefatory remarks on the principal investi¬ 
gators of the Ornithology of Cyprus and their publications, 
Mr. Bucknill gives a list of the 290 species of birds as yet 
known to occur there, taken from his articles “ On the 
Ornithology of Cyprus,” published in this Journal in 1909 
and 1910*. A few notes are added to the name of each 
bird. 
4. Butler on Foreign Birds for Aviaries . 
[Foreign Birds for Cage and Aviary. By Arthur G-. Butler, Ph.D. &c. 
Part II. The Larger Foreign Birds. London, 1910. 305 pp., small 4to.] 
The second part of Mr. Butler’s work finishes his account 
of the cage-birds to be met with in the European markets. 
In the first part the smaller forms were described, in the 
second we now find the larger, the two parts together 
containing accounts of about a thousand species. 
In the twenty chapters of the present volume the author 
has described such members of the groups of Starlings, 
Bower-birds, Paradise-birds, Manucodes, Larks, Pittas, 
Tyrants, Chatterers, Oven-birds, Woodpeckers, Colies, King¬ 
fishers, Motmots, Bee-eaters, Toucans, Barbets, Touracous, 
* See < Ibis,’ 1909, p. 569, and 1910, pp. 1 & 385. 
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