290 REPORT ON ZOOLOGY, MDCCCXL1V. 



= T. fyrianthinns, Locld. An 0. Felicicnia has been described by Lesson in 

 ' Rev. Zool.' p. 434 ; its native haunt is stated to be about Guayaquil. 



CAPBIMULGINJE. In the ' Birds of Australia' Gould has given figures of 

 Podargus phalanoides, u. 14, Aeyotlielen leucog aster, n. 16 and Gaprimulgus 

 macrurus, n. 17. 



LIPOGLOSSJE. Lafresnaye (p. 172 of the Rev. Zool.) is at the pains to 

 inform the reader that the Hoopoe must be ranged in the Passerine order 

 and with the Teuuirostres, though under the title of a distinct family, 

 TJpupidiB. As our author observes, one must lie astonished to find that, up 

 to the present day in all ornithological works, the Hoopoe is associated with 

 Epimachus, although belonging to the tennirostral Passerinse. Unhappily, 

 however, neither the one nor the other of these assertions is correct. In 

 Nitzch's ' Pterylographie' it had already (1840) been shown that Upupa and 

 Epimachus ought not to be placed in mutual juxtaposition, but that the 

 latter should be allied with the Birds of Paradise, while he had, twenty 

 years previously, hit upon the Upupidse as constituting the proper place for 

 the Hoopoe. Now, if Lafresnaye had only made himself somewhat ac- 

 quainted with the German productions, and even with these yearly Reports 

 alone, he might have spared himself an unnecessary trouble. We have seen 

 in a former yearly Report, that the case fared no better between Strickland 



and the Hoopoe, than it has done now with the latter and Lafresnaye. Both 

 gentlemen could have convinced themselves by reference to Nitzch's work, 

 that, because ornithology does not consist exclusively in the knowledge of 



bird-skins, but in that of the whole ornithic structure, it is of demonstrable 



utility for something else than the bare exterior to be taken, in an attempt 



to classify, under consideration. 



Lafresnaye throws out the conjecture as to Gould's Halcyon platyrostris 



being probably identical witli his Todiramplim recurvirostris (Rev. Zool. p. 



322.) Gould's new species, Halcyon saurophaga comes from New Guinea. 



(Ann. Nat. Hist, xiii, p. 473.) Dacelo gigantea and cervinu were figured by 



him in the ' Birds of Australia,' n. 15. 



ZYGODACTYLA. 



K. Kessler, of Kiew, has contributed some exceedingly 

 valuable observations to the Bullet, de Moscon, 1844, p. 311, 

 upon the relations of the Woodpeckers, in respect to their 

 skeletal structure, with the rest of the Scansorial birds. 



The author submits to comparison the skeletons of Plats, Psittacus, 

 Bitcco, Psilopoyon, Centropus, Cocct/zus, Phornicophtfits, Crotophaga, Cuculus, 



