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the museums in which their specimens have been deposited, 
to incorporate into the present work. 
As a frontispiece of the work (which consists of an octavo 
volume of 400 pages), a copy of a newly discovered original 
picture of the Dodo by Savary is given. We hope to give a 
more extended notice of this important publication in our 
next number. 
New Work on Indian Birds. —Messrs. A. O. Hume and G. 
F. L. Marshall send us a prospectus of r The Game Birds of 
India/ with “ hand-coloured illustrations of all the known 
species,” to be published early in 1878. The size will be 
that of Shelley's f Birds of Egypt.' There will be four 
volumes, each with about forty plates, the price to sub¬ 
scribers in advance being £4> 14 s. 6d. } paid in England, or 
Us. 54 in India. The first will contain the Peafowl, Phea¬ 
sants, Jungle Fowl, and Spur Fowl; the second the Par¬ 
tridges, Quail, Bustard, and Florikin; the third the Pigeons 
and Sandgrouse ; the fourth the Water-birds, Cranes, Geese, 
Duck, Teal, Snipe, Woodcock, &c. A fifth volume may, 
perhaps, be subsequently added, containing the Plovers and 
Waders, which, “ though not actually Game Birds, often afford 
very excellent eating;" but only the four volumes enumerated 
above will be put in hand at once. 
Exploration of Tenasserim. —Major Godwin-Austen, who 
is temporarily engaged in arranging the collection of birds in 
the new Imperial Museum at Calcutta, writes to us of a plan 
which has been started there for the collection of zoological 
specimens in the Tenasserim provinces. The services of a 
young Swedish collector, named Ossian Limborg, who had 
lately arrived in Calcutta, had been obtained with this object. 
After previous instruction, Mr. Limborg had been despatched, 
in company with a taxidermist and a native collector, on the 
11th of December last to his destination. His first trip was 
to the high range of Moule, east of Moulmain, about 5000 
feet high, the base of which he reached on the 31st of De¬ 
cember. Major Godwin-Austen writes on February 1, that 
