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LITERATURE REFERRING TO EXTINCT BIRDS. 
 
 
1891. FREDERIC A. LUCAS. Animals recently 
       extinct or threatened with extermina- 
       tion, as represented in the collection 
       of the U.S. National Museum. 
         In Report of the Smithson Inst. (U.S. Nat. 
       Mus.) 1889 (1891 1), pp. 6o9-649, 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, Chauno- 
       firoctus ferreorostris, Hemij'haga  spadicea 
       mentioned.) 
 
1891. WILL. DUTCHER. The Labrador Duck. 
      A revised list of the extant specimens 
      in North America, with some historical 
      notes. 
        In Auk i8gi, 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. 0.     Preliminary Notice 
       of Additions to the Extinct Avifauna 
       of New Zealand (Abstract). 
       In Trans. and Proceed. New Zealand Inst. 
       Vol. XXIV, pp. 185-i89. 
       (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. 0. FORBES.     A15hanafiteryx and 
       other remains in the Chatham Islands. 
         In Nature, Vol. XLVI, p. 252. 
         (Short notes on avian remains which, unfor- 
       tunately, were never properly studied after- 
       wards.) 
 
 
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 
       Bremen XII. 
 
 
zu. 
 
 
1893. H. 0. 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 esp~ces d'oiseaux actuelle- 
       ment 6teintes qui se trouvent repro- 
       sentdes dans les collections du museum 
       d'histoire naturelle.  In : Centenaire 
       de la fondation du mus6um d'histoire 
       naturelle.    Volume    commdmoratif 
       publi6 par les professeurs du Mus6um. 
       Pp. 189-252, pls. I-V. 
         (Only 6 species: Mascarinus mascarinus, 
       Alectroenas nitidissima, Alca imbennis, 
       Fregilupus varius, Camptolaemus labradorius, 
       Dromraius "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. Theodore Sauzier. 
         In Trans. Zool. Soc. London XIII, pp. 281- 
       302. Pls. XXXIII-XXXVII. 
         (Strix sauzieri, Astur aiphonsi, Butorides 
       mauritianus, Plotus nanus, Sarcidiornis 
       mauritianus, Anas theodori, etc.)