AYES GALLINACEyE. 293 



In the Columbime he numbers Carpophaffaintb. 30 species, Lopholmnnts 

 with 1, Colitmba with 34-, Ectopistes with 2, Geopelia with 4, Macropygia 

 with 8, <Kv# with 1, Tiirtur with 12, species. In Treroriuse he mentions ; 

 Ptilonopus with 25, Treron with IS species. 



New species : Treron crassirostris, of Fraser, in ' Ann. of Nat. Hist.' xiii, 

 p. 135, and xiv, p. 502, Geopelia placida and tranqiiilla, from Australia, of 

 Gould. Ptilinopus superb us, u. 14, Geopelia. humeralis, n. 15, and Macro- 

 pygia phasianella, u. 17, have been figured in his ' Birds of Australia.' 



Wahlberg observes, in 'Arch, skand. Beitr.' I, S. 138, that, according to 

 credible accounts, Turtle-doves occur in Lulea Lappmark, but it merits 

 closer inquiry as to whether they belong to Columba turtur or to an allied 

 species, obtained by the Reichsmuseum from the north of Sweden. 



GALLINACEYE. 



Gray, in his Genera of Birds, n. 3, represents bis sub- 

 family of Penelopinae \vitb three genera, Ortalida with four- 

 teen, Penelope with ten and Oreophasis with one, species. 



Penelope leucogaster, whose habitat is unknown, has been 

 framed for a new species by Gould, in the Ann. Nat. Hist, 

 xiii, p. 475. 



At xiii, p. 313, of the same journal, H. Denny endea- 

 vours from the parasites, up on Talegalla to assign its place 

 in the system of Birds. 



Swainson had placed this genus with the Vultures, while other Ornithologists 

 concurred in ranging it with the Gallinaceous Birds. Denny also accedes to 

 this latter opinion, having found upon the Bird in question the two genera 

 Goniodes and Lipeurus, the first of which, if not both, infests almost every 

 Galliua. The latter genus is indeed found upon the rapacious, wading, and 

 aquatic Birds, but never the first. 



Sundevall, in the ' Arch, skand. Beitr.' i, S. 160, has given a characteristic 

 of the differences incident upon age and sex in the Tetrao hybrid/us layo- 

 poides of Nilssou, who first made us acquainted with the true nature of the 

 bastard progeny, called " Riporre," of the Black-cock and Ptarmigan. The 

 male only was then known, but Sundevall has recently obtained the female 

 also from Helsiugland. It is somewhat smaller than a Black-hen, which it 

 resembles in the form of the tail, but has rougher toes and is of a whitish 

 colour. 



