Part 2

(Page 12 the "Solitaire." Cf. _Didus solitarius_.)

1668. J. MARSHALL. Memorandums concerning India.

(In the article on Mauritius occurs a mention of Geese.)

1674. PÈRE DUBOIS. Les Voyages faits par le Sieur D.B. aux Isles Dauphine ou Madagascar, et Bourbon, ou Mascarenne, és années 1669-70-71-72.

(Of this extremely rare work I possess a beautiful copy, together with the map of Sanson belonging to it.)

(On p. 168 we find "Description de quelques Oyseaux de l'Isle de Bourbon," with figures of the "Géant" and "Solitaire.")

1696. THEVENOT, M. MELCHISEDEC. Rélations de divers voyages curieux qui nont point este' publié'es. Nouvelle Edition. Vol. I, II, 1696.

(A very interesting collection of ancient voyages, translated into French. In Vol. II is a translation of Bontekoe's travels to the "East Indies," with figures of the Dodo and other interesting notes.)

1707. LEGUAT, FRANÇOIS. Voyages et Avantures de François Leguat, et de ses Compagnons, en deux Isles desertes des Indes Orientales. Londres 1707.

1708. LEGUAT, FRANCIS. A New Voyage to the East Indies by Francis Leguat and his companions. Containing their adventures in two desert islands. London 1708.

(Valuable notes on the birds of Rodriguez and Mauritius.)

1707. SLOANE, HANS. A Voyage to the islands Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christofers and Jamaica, with the Natural History of the Herbs and Trees, four-footed Beasts, Fishes, Insects, Birds, Reptiles, etc. Vol. I, 1707; vol. II, 1725.

(Gives most valuable notes on the birds, including the Goatsucker, _Aestrelata_ and Parrots.)

1722. LABAT, JEAN BAPTISTE. Nouveau Voyage aux Iles de l'Amérique contenant l'histoire naturelle de ces pays. Paris 1722. 6 vols.

(In Vol. II, chapter VIII, the different species of Parrots are described, and it is stated that each island had three kinds, viz., an "Aras," a "Perroquet" and a "Perrique," evidently meaning a Macaw, an Amazona and a Conurus.)

1742. Nouvelle Edition. 8 vols.

{xviii} 1752. MOEHRING. Avium Genera.

(In this ominous work, which, through an article by Poche in Zool. Anz. 1904, has recently caused so much quite unnecessary disturbance among nomenclatorists--cf. Hartert, Zool. Anz. 1904, p. 154, and Proc. IV. Int. Orn. Congress, pp. 276-283. The Dodo is mentioned under the name "Raphus.")

1763. L'ABBÉ DE LA CAILLE. Journal Historique du Voyage fait au Cap de Bonne-espérance.

(Some birds from Mauritius mentioned, but no descriptions.)

1773. VOYAGE A L'ISLE DE FRANCE, à l'isle de Bourbon, au Cap de Bonne Espérance, etc. Avec des observations nouvelles sur la nature et sur les hommes. Par un officier du roi. Neuchatel 1773.

1775. A voyage to the island of Mauritius, etc. By a French Officer. (Translation of the above).

(Lettre IX, page 67, treats of the "Animals natural to the isle of France.")

1782. SONNERAT. Voyage aux iles orientales et à la Chine. Two volumes, 1782.

(In Volume II, on plate 101, opposite page 176, the extinct _Alectroenas nitidissima_ is figured, under the name of "Pigeon hollandais.")

*1783 (?) CALLAM. Voyage Botany Bay.

(According to Gray _Notornis alba_ is mentioned under the name of "White Gallinule.")

1786. SPARRMANN. Museum Carlsonianum I.

(On pl. 23 _Pomarea nigra_ Sparrm.)

1789. G. DIXON. Voyage round the World.

(On p. 357 is note and figure of the extinct _Moho apicalis_, under the name of the "Yellow-tufted Bee-eater.")

1789. BROWNE, PATRICK. The Civil and Natural History of Jamaica.

1789. THE VOYAGE OF GOVERNOR PHILLIP to Botany Bay, etc. London 1789.

(Among other interesting birds _Notornis stanleyi_ is figured on the plate opposite p. 273.)

1790. J. WHITE. Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales with sixty-five Plates of Nondescript Animals, Birds, Lizards, Serpents, etc. London MDCCXC.

(I have a copy with black and white, and another with coloured plates. _Notornis alba_.)

1804. HERMANN. Observationes Zoolog.

(On page 125 the extinct Bourbon _Palaeornis_ is described as _Psittacus semirostris_.)

1807. M. F. PÉRON. Voyage de découvertes aux terres australes, exécuté par ordre de Sa Majesté l'Empereur et Roi, etc., etc. 2 vols. 1807 and 1816 and Atlas.

(On p. 467 is described the Little Emu from Kangaroo Island, which I have named _Dromaius peronii_, in honour of its discoverer, François Péron. A memoir of this extraordinary and admirable man's short and brilliant life will be found in Vol. VI of the "Naturalist's Library," Edinburgh, 1843.)

1810. ANDRÉ PIERRE LEDRU. Voyage aux iles de Ténériffe, la Trinité, Saint-Thomas, Sainte-Croix et Porto-Ricco, exécuté par ordre du Gouvern. français, etc., etc. Two volumes, 1810.

(In Vol. II, page 39, are mentioned various birds as occurring on the Danish West-Indian Islands, which are not found there at present. "Un todier, nommé vulgairement perroquet de terre" and seven species of Humming-Birds!)

*1826. BLOXAM. Voyage of the Blonde.

(See _Phaeornis oahensis_, _Loxops coccinea rufa_. Also interesting notes on other Sandwich-Islands Birds.)

1827. PALLAS. Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat. II p. 305: _Phalacrocorax perspicillatus_, the now extinct Cormorant from Bering Island.

{xix} 1830. QUOY ET GAIMARD. Voy. Astrolabe, Zool. I p. 242 pl. 24.

(_Coturnix novaezealandiae_ described.)

1830. KITTLITZ. Mémoires Acad. Sc. Pétersburg I.

(Kittlitz describes _Turdus terrestris_ and _Fringilla papa_.)

*1838. POLACK. New Zealand.

(First mention of Moas.)

*1838. DON DE NAVARETTE. Rel. Quat. voy. Christ.

1838. LICHTENSTEIN. Abhandl. K. Akademie d. Wissenschaften p. 448, plate V.

(_Hemignathus ellisianus_--sub nomine _obscurus_--and _Hemignathus lucidus_ described.)

1843. DIEFFENBACH'S Travels in New Zealand, 1843. Appendix, Birds, by J. E. Gray. On page 197 _Rallus dieffenbachii_ described.

1843. OWEN. P.Z.S. 1843, p. 1., letter read from Rev. W. C. Cotton, mentioning remains of gigantic birds in New Zealand, p. 8 the name _Dinornis novaezealandiae_ given to the first Moa-bones exhibited.

1846. In the "VOYAGE OF EREBUS AND TERROR," Birds, Gray describes and figures _Nesolimnas dieffenbachii_.

1847. GOSSE. Birds of Jamaica.

(Cf. _Ara erythrocephala_, _Siphonorhis americanus_ and other Jamaican birds.)

1848. EDM. DE SÉLYS-LONGCHAMPS. Résumé concern, les Oiseaux brévipennes mentionnés dans l'ouvrage de M. Strickland sur le Dodo.

In Rev. Zool. 1848, pp. 292-295.

1848. STRICKLAND AND MELVILLE. The Dodo and its kindred; or the history, affinities, and Osteology of the Dodo, Solitaire, and other extinct birds of the islands Mauritius, Rodriguez and Bourbon. London 1848.

(141 pages and 15 plates.)

*1848. PEALE. U.S. Expl. Exp. Birds.

(On p. 147, pl. XL, is described and figured the extinct _Chaetoptila augustipluma_, under the name of _Entomiza augustipluma_. This work is not available, as only 3 or 4 copies exist of it, but see:

CASSIN. U.S. Expl. Exp. Mamm. and Orn. p. p. 148 pl. XI (1858).

1851. IS. GEOFFROY-SAINT-HILAIRE. Notice sur des ossements et des oeufs trouvés a Madagascar dans les alluvions modernes, et provenant d'un oiseau gigantesque.

In Annales des Scienc. Naturelles, 13 série. Zoologie, tome 40.

(This volume is dated "1850," but the above article is said to have been read before the Academy on January 27, 1851, therefore the date of publication must be rather 1851 than 1850.)

1854. H. SCHLEGEL. Ook een woordje over den Dodo en zijne verwanten.

In: Verslagen en Mededeelingen der Koninglijke Akademie der Wetenschappen, Afdeel. Naturkunde, Deel II, p. 254.

1857. JAPETUS STEENSTRUP. Bidrag til Geirfuglens Naturhistorie, etc.

In: Naturh. Forening. Vidensk. Meddel. for 1855, Nos. 3-7.

(The first history and bibliography of the Great Auk.)

1858. H. SCHLEGEL. Over eenige uitgestorvene reusachtige Vogels van de Mascarenhas-eilanden. (Een tegenhanger tot zijne geschiedenis der Dodo's.)

In: Verslagen en Mededeelingen der Koninglijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, Afdeel. Naturkunde, Deel VII, pp. 116-128.

(_Leguatia gigantea_, _Porphyrio (Notornis?) caerulescens_.)

{xx} 1860. A. V. PELZELN. Zur Ornithologie der Insel Norfolk.

In: Sitzungsberichte der Mathemat. Naturwiss. Cl. Akademie Wien Bd. XLI, No. 15, pp. 319-332. (Mit 1 Tafel.)

(Lengthy account of _Nestor norfolcensis_, from Bauer's Manuscript, _Notornis alba_, etc.)

1861. ALFRED NEWTON. Abstract of Mr. Wolley's Researches in Iceland respecting the Gare-fowl.

In Ibis, 1861, pp. 374-399.

1862. W. J. BRODERIP. Notice of an Original Painting, including a figure of the Dodo.

In Trans. Zool. Soc. London IV, p. 197.

1862. WILLIAM PREYER. Ueber _Plautus impennis_.

In Journ. f. Orn. 1862, pp. 110-124, 337-356.

1865. ALFRED NEWTON. The Gare-fowl and its Historians.

In Natural Hist. Review XII (1865), pp. 467-488; id. in Encylcl. Britannica Ed. IX, Vol. III; id. Dict. Birds, p. 220-221.

1866. OWEN. _Psittacus mauritianus_ named, in Ibis p. 168; also mentioned in Trans. Zool. Soc. VI, p. 53, 1866.

(See _Lophopsittacus_.)

1866-1873. ALPH. MILNE-EDWARDS. Recherches sur la Faune Ornithologique Eteinte des iles Mascareignes et de Madagascar. Paris 1866-1873.

(With 37 plates. This volume consists of reprints of the author's articles on the subject in French periodicals, though not a word of this is mentioned. To the plates originally issued with the articles, several new ones are added.)

1867. ALFRED NEWTON. On a Picture supposed to represent the Didine Bird of the Island of Bourbon (Réunion).

In Trans. Zool. Soc. London VI, pp. 373-376. Plate 62.

1867. GEORGE DAWSON ROWLEY. On the Egg of _Aepyornis_, the Colossal Bird of Madagascar.

In Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1867, pp. 892-895.

1868. FRAUENFELD, GEORGE RITTER VON. Neu aufgefundene Abbildung des _Dronte_ und eines zweiten kurzflügligen Vogels, wahrscheinlich des poule rouge au bec de bécasse der Maskarenen, in der Privatbibliothek S.M. des verstorbenen Kaisers Franz. Wien 1868. Mit 4 Tafeln.

1868. SCHLEGEL & POLLEN. Mammifères et Oiseaux, in: Pollen et von Dam, Recherches sur la faune de Madagascar et de ses dépendances. Leyde 1868.

1868. OWEN, on Moas in Trans. Zool. Soc. London, VI.

(_Dinornis maximus_ established.)

*1868. H. C. MILLIES. Over eene nieuw ontdekte afbeelding van den Dodo.

In: Verhandelingen der Koningl. Akad. d. Wetenschappen, Deel XI, Amsterdam 1868.

1869. OWEN. On the osteology of the Dodo.

In: Trans. Zool. Soc. London VI, 1869, p. 70.

1869. ELLIOT. New and heretofore unfig. sp. N. American Birds.

(In Vol. II, part 14, No. 3, the now extinct _Carbo perspicillatus_ from Bering Island figured.)

{xxi} 1872. F. W. HUTTON. On the Microscopical structure of the Egg-shell of the Moa.

In Trans. & Proceed. New Zealand Inst. IV, pp. 166-167, with illustrations.

1872. F. W. HUTTON. Notes on some Birds from the Chatham Islands, collected by H. H. Travers, Esq.

In Ibis 1872, pp. 243-250.

(_Miro traversi_ and _Sphenoeacus rufescens_ (_Bowdleria rufescens_ of this book) only found on Mangare. First description of "_Rallus modestus_" (_Cabalus modestus_), "_Rallus dieffenbachi_" already extinct.)

1872. J. HECTOR. On Recent Moa Remains in New Zealand.

In Trans. and Proc. N. Zealand Inst. IV, p. 110.

1872. JULIUS HAAST. Notes on Harpagornis Moorei.

In Trans. and Proc. N. Zealand Inst. IV, p. 192.

1873. A. V. PELZELN. On the Birds in the Imperial Collection at Vienna obtained from the Leverian Museum.

In Ibis 1873, pp. 14-54, 103-124.

(Most important notes on some of Latham's types. Cf. _Drepanis pacifica_, _Platycercus ulietanus_, _Notornis alba_.)

1873. CHRISTMANN UND OBERLÄNDER. Ozeanien.

(On pages 138-144 a popular account and wood cuts--from Brehm's Thierleben--of Moas and other Gigantic Birds.)

1873. BULLER. The Birds of New Zealand.

1874. A. MILNE-EDWARDS. Recherches sur la faune ancienne des iles Mascareignes.

In Ann. Sciences naturelles sér. V, Tome XIX, article 3 (_Erythromachus_, _Strix murivora_, _Columba rodericana_, etc.)

1875. ROWLEY. _Porphyrio Stanleyi_.

In Ornith. Miscell. I, pp. 37-48, plate.

1875. HUTTON. Description of the Moa Swamp at Hamilton.

In Trans. & Proc. N. Zealand Inst. VII, p. 123, pl. V.

1875. HUTTON & COUGHTREY. Description of some Moa Remains from the Knobby Ranges.

In Trans. & Proc. N. Zealand Inst. VII, p. 266, pl. XIX.

1875. ALFRED NEWTON. P.Z.S. 1875, p. 350: the name _Lophopsittacus_ established.

1875. HUTTON. On the Dimensions of Dinornis bones.

In Trans. & Proc. N. Zealand Inst. VII, p. 274.

1875. JULIUS VON HAAST. Researches and Excavations on, in and near the Moa-bone Point Cave, Sumner Road, in the year 1872.

In Trans. and Proceed. New Zealand Institute VII, pp. 54-85, pls. I, II.

*1875. VAN BENEDEN. Journ. Zool. IV, p. 267.

(Description of _Anas finschi_.)

1876. A. & E. NEWTON. On the Psittaci of the Mascarene Islands.

In Ibis 1876, pp. 281-288, plate VI.

1876. TOMMASO SALVADORI. Nota intorno al _Fregilupus varius_.

In: Atti della Reale Accademia delle Scienze di Torino, Vol. XI, pp. 482-488.

1877. G. D. ROWLEY. On the Extinct Birds of the Mascarene Islands.

In Orn. Miscell. II, pp. 124-133, plates LII, LIII.

{xxii} 1878. G. D. ROWLEY. Remarks on the Extinct Gigantic Birds of Madagascar and New Zealand.

In Ornith. Miscell. III, pp. 237-247, pls. CXII-CXV.

1879. DOLE. List of Birds of the Hawaiian Islands. Corrected from the Hawaiian Almanack. Reprint: Ibis 1881, p. 241.

(_Pennula millsi_, _Ciridops anna_.)

1879. OWEN, RICHARD. Memoirs on the Extinct Wingless Birds of New Zealand; with an Appendix on those of England, Australia, Newfoundland, Mauritius and Rodriguez.

(Memoirs on the _Dinornithidae_, their bones, eggs, integument and plumage, _Notornis_, _Aptornis_, _Cnemiornis_, _Alca impennis_, _Didus_ and _Pezophaps_. With many wood-cuts and plates.)

(See also Owen's articles in Trans. Zool. Soc. London III, IV, VI, X, XI.)

1879. GÜNTHER AND E. NEWTON, on _Aphanapteryx leguati_ in Philosophical Transactions. Vol. 168, pp. 431-432, pl. XLIII.

1879. W. A. FORBES. On the systemat. position and scientific name of "Le Perroquet mascarin" of Brisson.

In Ibis 1879, p. 303.

1884. WILHELM BLASIUS. Zur Geschichte von _Alca impennis_.

In Journ. f. Orn. 1884, pp. 58-176.

(The most accurate and complete list--till 1884--of specimens of _Alca impennis_.)

1885. A. B. MEYER. _Notornis hochstetteri_.

In: Zeitschr. ges. Orn. II, p. 45, pl. I.

1885. SYMINGTON GRIEVE. The Great Auk or Garefowl. Its History, Archaeology, and Remains. London 1885.

1897. Id.: Supplementary note on the Great Auk; in Trans. Edinburgh Field Nat. Soc. 1897, pp. 238-273.

1886. December. JULIUS VON HAAST. On _Megalapteryx hectori_, a new Gigantic Species of Apterygian Bird.

In Trans. Zool. Soc. London XII, p. 161, pl. XXX.

1887. HENRY SEEBOHM. The Geographical Distribution of the family _Charidriidae_.

(Plates of _Prosobonia leucoptera_ and _Aechmorhynchus cancellata_.)

1888. BULLER. A History of the Birds of New Zealand.

In two volumes. Second Edition. (See 1873.)

1889. SIR EDWARD NEWTON. Presidential address.

In Trans. Norfolk and Norwich Natural. Society IV, pp. 540-547.

1889. A. DE QUATREFAGES. Nouvelle Preuve de l'Extinction récente des Moas.

In: Le Naturaliste 1889, p. 117.

1889. F. C. NOLL. Die Veränderung in der Vogelwelt im Laufe der Zeit.

In: Bericht über die Senckenberg. Naturf. Gesellsch. in Frankf.-a.-M. 1887-1888, pp. 77-142.

1890. STEJNEGER AND LUCAS. Contributions to the History of Pallas' Cormorant. With plates II-IV.

In Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. XII, pp. 83-94.

1890-99. SCOTT B. WILSON & EVANS. Aves Hawaiienses: The Birds of the Sandwich Islands. With numerous plates.

1891. RICHARD LYDEKKER. Catalogue of the Fossil Birds in the British Museum. London 1891.

(Pages I-XXVII, 1-368. With 75 figures in the text.)

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1891. FREDERIC A. LUCAS. Animals recently extinct or threatened with extermination, as represented in the collection of the U.S. National Museum.

In Report of the Smithson Inst. (U.S. Nat. Mus.) 1889 (1891!), pp. 609-649, pls. XCV-CV.

(An account of some of the larger animals which have become extinct within historic times, or are threatened with extinction, with reasons suggested for their disappearance.)

1891. HARTERT. Katalog der Vogelsammlung im Museum der Senchenberg. Naturf. Ges. Frankfurt-a-M.

(_Alca impennis_, _Turdus terrestris_, _Chaunoproctus ferreorostris_, _Hemiphaga spadicea_ mentioned.)

1891. WILL. DUTCHER. The Labrador Duck. A revised list of the extant specimens in North America, with some historical notes.

In Auk 1891, pp. 301-316, pl. 2.

1894. WILL. DUTCHER. The Labrador Duck. With additional data respecting extant specimens.

In Auk 1894, pp. 4-12.

1892. FORBES, H. O. Preliminary Notice of Additions to the Extinct Avifauna of New Zealand (Abstract).

In Trans. and Proceed. New Zealand Inst. Vol. XXIV, pp. 185-189.

(The editors say that the paper is published in abstract, as it had been impossible to prepare the drawings for its illustrations in time.--It is a most pitiful and unscientific proceeding to publish such preliminary abstracts containing insufficiently founded names and complete "nomina nuda" without publishing a fuller account; such, as far as I know, has never appeared.)

1892. H. O. FORBES. _Aphanapteryx_ and other remains in the Chatham Islands.

In Nature, Vol. XLVI, p. 252.

(Short notes on avian remains which, unfortunately, were never properly studied afterwards.)

1892. HUTTON. The Moas of New Zealand.

In Trans. and Proceed. New Zealand Institute Vol. XXIV, pp. 93-172, pls. XV-XVII.

1892. HAMILTON. Notes on Moa Gizzard-stones, t.c. p. 172.

1892. HAMILTON. On the genus _Aptornis_, t.c. pp. 175-184.

1892. HARTLAUB. Vier seltene Rallen.

In: Abhandl. d. Naturwiss. Vereins zu Bremen XII.

1893. H. O. FORBES. A List of the Birds inhabiting the Chatham Islands.

In Ibis 1893, pp. 521-546.

(Notes on the living and extinct forms. The genus _Palaeolimnas_ established. Egg of _Cabalus modestus_ figured, etc.)

1893. W. W. SMITH. Notes on certain species of New Zealand Birds.

In Ibis 1893, pp. 509-520.

(Methods of colonization and their disastrous results to the birds described.)

1893. MILNE-EDWARDS & OUSTALET. Notice sur quelques espèces d'oiseaux actuellement éteintes qui se trouvent représentées dans les collections du muséum d'histoire naturelle. In: Centenaire de la fondation du muséum d'histoire naturelle. Volume commémoratif publié par les professeurs du Muséum. Pp. 189-252, pls. I-V.

(Only 6 species: _Mascarinus mascarinus_, _Alectroenas nitidissima_, _Alca impennis_, _Fregilupus varius_, _Camptolaemus labradorius_, _Dromaius_ "_ater_," but these beautifully figured and masterly described and discussed.)

1893. SIR E. NEWTON AND GADOW. On additional Bones of the Dodo and other Extinct Birds of Mauritius obtained by Mr. Théodore Sauzier.

In Trans. Zool. Soc. London XIII, pp. 281-302. Pls. XXXIII-XXXVII.

(_Strix sauzieri_, _Astur alphonsi_, _Butorides mauritianus_, _Plotus nanus_, _Sarcidiornis mauritianus_, _Anas theodori_, etc.)

{xxiv} 1893. A. DE QUATREFAGES. The Moas and Moa-hunters.

In Trans. and Proceed. New Zealand Inst. XXV, pp. 17-49.

(Translation of the French article which appeared in the Nos. for June and July of the "Journal des Savants" by Laura Buller.)

1893. PARKER. On the classification and mutual relations of the _Dinornithidae_. By T. J. Parker.

In Trans. and Proc. New Zealand Inst. XXV, pp. 1-6, pls. I-III.

1893. F. W. HUTTON. New Species of Moas.

In Trans. and Proc. New Zealand Inst. Vol. XXV, pp. 6-13.

(_Dinornis strenuus_, _Anomalopteryx fortis_, _Euryapteryx compacta_, _Pachyornis inhabilis_, _P. valgus_.)

1893. F. W. HUTTON. On _Anomalopteryx antiqua_. T.c. p. 14, pl. IV.

*1893. R. BURCKHARDT, in Paläontolog. Abhandl. VI, Heft 2, pp. 127-145, Taf. 1-4.

(_Aepyornis_.)

1893. H. O. FORBES. The Moas of New Zealand.

In Natural Science II, pp. 374-380.

1893. A. HAMILTON. On the Fissures and Caves at the Castle Rocks, Southland; with a description of the remains of the Existing and Extinct Birds found in them.

(In Trans. and Proceed. New Zealand Inst. XXV, pp. 88-106; with figures.)

1893. A. NEWTON. "Extermination." In A Dictionary of Birds.

(See also in Encyclopaedia Britannica.)

1893-1900. WALTER ROTHSCHILD. The Avifauna of Laysan and the Neighbouring Islands: with a complete history to date of the Birds of the Hawaiian Possessions. London 1893-1900. With numerous plates.

(Account and coloured plates of the extinct birds of Oahu and Hawaii.)

1894. MILNE-EDWARDS ET GRANDIDIER. Observations sur les _Aepyornis_ de Madagascar.

In: Comptes Rendus hebd. des Séances de l'Acad. d. Sciences, Paris, Vol. CXVIII, Part I, pp. 122-127.

1894. J. PARKER. Notes on Three Moa-Skulls.

In Trans. and Proc. N. Zealand Inst. XXVI, p. 223.

1894. HAMILTON. On Avian Remains in Southland.

In Trans. and Proc. N. Zealand Inst. XXVI, p. 226.

1894. HAMILTON. Materials for a Bibliography of the _Dinornithidae_.

In Trans. and Proc. N. Zealand Inst. XXVI, pp. 229-257.

(A careful list to which I refer my readers.)

1895. C. W. ANDREWS. On some remains of Aepyornis in the Hon. Walter Rothschild's Museum at Tring.

In: Novitates Zoologicae II, pp. 23-25.

1895. HAMILTON. Further contributions towards a Bibliography of the Moas.

In Trans. and Proc. N. Zealand Inst. XXVII, p. 228-232.

1895. JEFFERY PARKER. On the Cranial Osteology, Classification, and Phylogeny of the Dinornithidae.

In Trans. Zool. Soc. London Vol. XIII, pp. 373-431, pls. LVI-LXII.

{xxv} 1895. HAMILTON. On the Feathers of a small Moa.

In Trans. and Proc. N. Zealand Inst. XXVII, pp. 232-238.

*1895. C. W. ANDREWS. On Aepyornis bones, etc., in Geological Magazine 1895.

1896. HUTTON. On a deposit of Moa-bones at Kapua.

In Trans. and Proc. N. Zealand Inst. XXVIII, p. 627. Id. On the Moa-bones from Enfield, t.c. p. 645.

1896. C. W. ANDREWS. On the Extinct Birds of the Chatham Islands.

In Novit Zoolog. III, p. 73-84 and 260-271.

(_Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi_, _Palaeolimnas chathamensis_, _Nesolimnas dieffenbachii_.)

1896. G. HARTLAUB. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der ausgestorbenen Vögel der Neuzeit, sowie derjenigen, deren Fortbestehen bedroht erscheint.

In: Abhandl. d. Naturwiss. Vereins gn. Bremen XIV Band, 1 Heft.

(Also: Second edition of the same, printed as manuscript, with a few alterations and additions.)

(The most useful, comprehensive pamphlet on recently extinct birds.)

1897. ANDREWS. On some fossil remains of Carinate Birds from Central Madagascar.

In Ibis 1897, pp. 343-359, pls. VIII and IX.

1897. H. O. FORBES. On an apparently new, and supposed to be now extinct, species of Bird from the Mascarene Islands, provisionally referred to the genus _Necropsar_. With plate.

In Bull. Liverpool Museums, I, p. 34, pl. Sturn. I (_Necropsar leguati_).

1897. FORBES AND ROBINSON. Note on Two Species of Pigeon, t.c. p. 35.

(_Hemiphaga spadicea_.)

(On pl. I of the same vol. is figured _Nestor norfolcensis_. See p. 5.)