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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.)

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