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I should also like to congratulate Messrs. Wilson and 
Evans on the completion of their f Aves Hawaiienses/ to which 
we have long been looking forward. The strange avifauna 
of this isolated group of islands was specially worthy of a 
monograph. 
Of equal importance in geographical ornithology are the 
two admirable quarto volumes, published by Dr. A. 13. Meyer 
and Mr. L. A. Wiglesworth, on the * Birds of Celebes/ 
which have reached us since the commencement of our 
last Session. As doubtful territory between the Oriental 
and Australian Regions, Celebes is a locality of special 
importance in the study of zoo-geography, and well wor'hy 
of the elaborate care and attention that these authors have 
devoted to it. 
I may also venture to allude to the recent completion of 
Mr. Oates's handy little volumes on the f Game-Birds of 
India/ by the issue of the second part, and to the good 
progress made by our Editor with Seebohm's * Monograph 
of the Thrushes/ the seventh part of which has lately 
appeared. 
Now, turning to the forthcoming works actually in 
progress, I may mention that our brother member, Dr. A. 
C. Stark, has nearly passed through the press the first of 
four volumes on the f Birds of South Africa/ which will 
form a part of Mr. W. L. Sclater's series on the fauna of 
that portion of the Ethiopian Region. Both Mr. Layard's 
original volume and Dr. Sharpe’s new edition of it are, I 
believe, long since out of print, and it is highly desirable 
that a new and revised account of the birds of that country, 
w 7 hich is now, and is likely to remain, of such interest to us, 
should be published. 1 believe I may truly say that Dr. Stark 
is well qualified, from long personal experience with the avi¬ 
fauna in question, to prepare such a work. 
Mr. Rothschild's illustrated monograph on the Casso¬ 
waries is now also in an advanced stage, and will shortly be 
published in the Zoological Society's f Transactions.' It 
will be of great importance as comprising all the available 
information respecting this little-known and most interesting 
