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iufcriores tenuissime atro vermiculatse. Frons et stria supra oculum atra. 

 Mentum cum stria pone et ante oculum album. G-ula cum genis et capilis 

 superiore facie cinerea. Colli latera albo fuscoque transversim fasciolata. 

 Dorsum et pectoris initium cinereo, fusco et ferrugiueo fasciolata. Length 

 9" 3"'. Sent by Karelin, on his travels through Turcomania and Persia. 



By this Memoir of Brandt's the questions proposed by Gerard, in his 

 article Chourtlca (Diction. Univ. d'Hist. Nat. iii, p. 642), are answered of 

 themselves. 



Cookson mentions the instance of a Partridge which laid 36 eggs in his 

 aviary, from which two domestic hens hatched 30 young. He had obtained 

 this bird when it was perhaps 3 weeks old, and after moulting it assumed, 

 entirely, the male plumage, so that it was even taken for a male, and it was 

 a matter of astonishment that a wild male endured captivity so well. On 

 the moult of the next year it reassumed the female plumage, and, in the fol- 

 lowing spring, laid the above-mentioned number of eggs. (Ann. Nat. Hist, 

 xii, p. 453.) Malherbe has published some interesting notices on the habits 

 and breeding of the Francolhi ; it has not been met with in Greece, any 

 more than in Corfu and Caudia. 



As new species Smith has described, in his ' Illustrations of the Zool. of 

 South Africa,' Francolinus gariepensis, pi. 83, 84, and has given, in pi. 85, 

 a figure of Fi . LcmiiUantii. To Ortyx Gould has added four species : 0. nigro- 

 gularh, from Mexico; 0. pectoralis, ib. ; 0. castc/nea, from South America ; 

 and 0. steUiita, from Brazil. (Ann. Nat. Hist, xii, p. 284.) In the 'Birds 

 of Australia,' part 12, are Synoieus (Coturnix) australis, Lath., and clii- 

 nensis, Lath. 



From Peru, Tschudi has brought, as new species, Odontophorus speciosus, 

 Penelope ritfiventris, and adsjoersa, Thinocorm Ingot. (Archiv, p. 386.) S. 

 Miiller and Schlegcl have remarked that Gallus aneus (pi. col. 374) is 

 merely a hybrid of G. furcatits and a tame Hen. (Land-en Volkenk. p. 210.) 



Tschudi observed a peculiar formation of the penis in Penelope abunnida 

 (Midler's Archiv, 1843, p. 472), upon which Joh. Miiller remarks that, 

 from his own examination of P. cristata, he had found exactly the same 

 condition of the penis in it as in the three- toed Ostriches, on which account 

 Penelope is related to those Birds, and not to the gallinaceous tribe. 



CHYPTURID.E. Hemipodius castanotus, from New Holland, instituted by 

 Gould, and figured in his ' Birds of Australia,' part 13. Crypturus Kleei, 

 by Tschudi, in our Archives (p. 387). 



