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Recently published Ornithological Works. 
quite convinced himself of the ravages of the Kea ( Nestor 
notabilis) upon the flocks (see ' The Ibis/ 1908, p. 382). He 
took photographs of the dead victims, and also of the nest- 
holes of the Keas, which breed in nearly inaccessible cavities 
in the highest rocks. We are not sorry to be told that with 
such breeding-places there seems to be little chance of these 
“ interesting but cruel birds ” being exterminated ! 
11. Menegaux's Ornithological Papers. 
[(1) Catalogue des Oiseaux envoy6s en 1906 du Tonquin et de l’Annam 
par M. Bouton. Par M. A. Menegaux. Bull. Mus. d'H. N. 1907, 
No. 1, p. 6. 
(2) Liste des Oiseaux rapport^s en 1906 par M. Geay de sud-ouest de 
Madagascar. Par M. A. Menegaux. Bull. Mus. d’H. N. 1907, No. 2, 
p. 102. 
(3) Ornithologie renseignements pratiques (i., ii., iii.). Par M. A. 
Menegaux. Bull. Mus. d’H. N. 1907. 
(4) Catalogue des Oiseaux rapport^s par M. et Mme. Ph. de Vilmorin 
de Soudan Egyptien. Par M. A. Menegaux. Bull. Mus. d’H. N. No. 6, 
p. 385. 
(5) Liste des Oiseaux de la Guyane Fran^aise donnes au Mus6um par 
M. Rey. Par M. A. Menegaux. Bull. Mus. d’H. N. 1907, No. 7, 
p. 493. 
(6) Oiseaux de l’Equateur donn&s au Mus4um par M. Gonessiat. Par 
M. A. Menegaux. • Bull. Mus. d’H. N. 1908, No. 2, p. 107. 
(7) Etude d’nne collection d’Oiseaux de l’Equateur donne au Museum 
d’Histoire Naturelle. Par M. A. Menegaux. Bull. Soc. Phil, de Paris, 
1908. 
(8) Sur les embryons, les poussins, et les jeunes oiseaux des Regions 
australes. Par M. A. Menegaux. Bull. Mus. d’H. N. 1898, No. 2.] 
M. Menegaux, who is now in charge of the Mammals and 
Birds in the French National Museum, has kindly sent us 
copies of the eight ornithological memoirs of which the titles 
are given above. No. 1 contains the names of 30 species of 
birds, examples of which were received from the French 
Colonies of Tonquin and Annam. No. 2 gives an account 
of a collection of birds made by M. Geay in Madagascar, 
which are referred to 19 species; amongst them is a pair 
of that rare and singular form Uratelornis chimcera. 
M. Geay observed in the sands of the sea-shore near Cap 
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