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and interest, and are sure that many other Members of our 
Union will do the same. 
32. Collett on the Great Auk in Norway . 
[Nogle Bemaerkninger om Alca impennis i Norge. Af R. Collett. 
Christiania Vidensk.-Selsk. Forhandl. 1907, No. 8. Christiania, 1907.] 
Dr. Collett here gives a sketch of our knowledge of the 
Great Auk in Norway, beginning with Linnaeus, who, in his 
f Fauna Suecica 9 in 1746, cautiously says iC habitat in mari 
Norvegico , rarius ! ” He then proceeds to the recent dis¬ 
covery of its remains in kitchen-middens on the Norwegian 
coast. There is only one complete stuffed specimen of the bird 
in any of the Norwegian museums, of which an uncoloured 
plate is given. The bones from the kitchen-middens now in 
the Museum at Christiania are likewise described and figured ; 
they consist of fragments of the humerus and coracoid. 
Dr. Collett moreover describes a considerable series of the 
bones of the Great Auk which were exhumed by P. Stuwitz 
in 1842 on Funk Island, north of Newfoundland, and are 
also in the Christiania Museum. 
33. Dresser on P alee arctic Birds’ Eggs. 
[Eggs of the Birds of Europe, including all the Species inhabiting the 
Western Palsearctic Area. By H. E. Dresser. Parts XIII., XIV., 
XV., XVI.] 
These four parts of Mr. Dresser’s work: treat of the 
Corvidae , Cypselidae , Caprimulgidae, Picidae , Alcedinidce , Cora- 
ciidee, Meropidce, Upupidae, Cuculidce, Strigidce , Phalacro- 
coracidae , Sulidce , Pelecanidce , Ardeidce , Ciconiidae , Ibididce 
(with Platalea ), Phcenicopteridae, and Anatidce . The eggs 
figured are those of members of the same families, with the 
addition of Phasianidae , Tetraonidce, Rallidce, Gruidce, and 
Otididae. The plates, as a whole, are even better than their 
precursors, and the three-colour process of photography is 
fully justifying its use for the representation of Oological 
specimens. The letterpress contains much interesting 
