AVES GRALL^E. 297 



out le plumage tout bleu, le bee et les picds rouges, laits coinme pieds de 

 ponies, ils ne voleut poiut, inais ils coureiit extremeinent vite, tellemeiit qu'un 

 chien a peiue d'eu attraper a la course ; ils sout tres bous." This Solitaire is 

 obviously different from that upon Rodriguez, and the blue birds dill'cr, at 

 the same time from both, as also from the Dodo. These birds have now 

 likewise disappeared from Bourbon. Their determination, in the event of 

 any osseous or other remains being found, would be a matter of great 

 importance. According to Q,uoy, the pretended Dodo bones in the Parisian 

 Museum did not come from Mauritius, but from Rodriguez, so that they 

 would seem to belong to the Solitaire of Leguat. Sundry bones from 

 Rodriguez have been sent by Tclfair to the Zoological Society of London, and 

 in the Audersoniau Museum at Glasgow are to be found the so-called "Dodo 

 bones from Mauritius." It is to be desired that all these remains were one 

 day closely compared with each other. 



GRALL^E. 



FULICARI^:. Gould establishes, among the Rallidse, a 

 particular 1 genus, Eulabeornis. (Ann. Nat. Hist, xiv, p. 

 503.) 



"Rostrum capite longius, fere rectum et leviter incurvuni, lateraliter 

 compression ; uaribus elougatis, apertis, singulis in sinu per mandibulse tres 

 fere partes a basi excurrente positis. Ala; paulo breves atque debiles, valde 

 rotuudata- ; tertiariis elougatis fere ad apiceni alse. Tarsi pulo lougi et 

 robustiores quam in genere Rallus, digitis attamen brevioribus. Cauda 

 louga cuneiformis, pogoniis laxis et effusis." The new species upon which 

 this genus is founded is called E. castaneocentris, and is figured in the 

 c Birds of Australia,' u. 17. 



ERODII. Desmurs has endeavoured, in the ' Mag. de Zool/ 

 n. 36, to assign from the character of the egg of Nothe- 

 rodius guaruana its place in the system. 



From the egg agreeing in form with that of the Heron, in colour with 

 that of the Crane, he is of opinion that its proper place is to be settled 

 as being between these two, and that the name of Ardea geranos may be 

 given it. The egg is figured at tab. 46. In Ardea lielias Desniurs finds, on 

 the contrary, the egg (tab. 47) more similar to that of the Rails. 



Ardea redirostris has been established by Gould, in the ' Ann Nat. Hist.' 

 xiii, p. 70, as a new species upon a probably young specimen, very similar 

 to the common Hern. In tue ' Birds of Australia,' n. 1 7, Gould figures 

 Geronticus spinicollis, Threskiortiis strictipennis, and Falcincllus ine/ens. 



