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nicated by the Reporter, in the ' Miinclm. Gel. Auzeig.' xvii, p. 582. 

 Dieffenbach could procure only one specimen; in many districts the "Kiwi" 

 is already extirpated. 



The discovery of the skeleton of a Dodo in the collection at Copenhagen; 

 has been confirmed by Reinhardt. (Isis, p. 58.) 



Measurements of the blood-corpuscles of the Ostrich, Emu, and Rhea, 

 have been made by Gulliver. (Ann. xii, p. 130.) 



GEALL^E. 



ALECTORIDES. Some notes on tlie habits of a Ptilt/nit'ilni crixtt/fd, kept in 

 the Clifton Zoological Gardens, have been communicated by Martin. (Ann. 

 Nat. Hist, xii, p. Ul.) 



FULICAKI/E. The European Fauna lias received an accession in the /V/'.v/ 

 cristata, Ginclin. 



As stated by Malherbe (p. 198), this Bird, which is common in Algeria, 

 has been killed in Provence, several times in Sardinia, and lately also in 



Sicily. 



New species : 7-V/W nnlcsMca, Crex facial 'is, andifemoralis, from Peru, by 

 Tschudi, in ' Arehiv,' p. 388. Rail us Rougetii, from Abyssinia, by Gueriu 

 (Rev. Zool. p. 322). Powna Jlinn'umi-, from New South Wales, and P. 

 palusti-is, from Van Diemen's Land, by Gould (Ann. xii, p. f>6) ; both figured 

 in the 'Birds of Australia' (part 10), as also is /W/v t/nllindcef/, Tcmm. 



EKODII. The eggs aud nest of iV/y///////</ i>1uihri>l<l<'s have been described 

 and figured by Goudot, in the 'Rev. Zool.,' p. 1, and in the 'Magas. de Zool.,' 

 tab. xxxviii. 



A. Smith has figured in his 'Illustrations,' A?<lm nfrlcuUls, Wagl., pi. 86, 

 and f/itttxraUs, Smith, pi. 90. 



GRUINJE. According to Malherbe's account, Grits pavonius occurs very 

 casually on the southern and eastern coasts of Sicily ; according to Swaiuson, 

 it is said uot to be infrequent in those waters, especially in the small island of 

 Lampedosa, near Malta. 



LIMICOL.E. New species of Plovers are, Charadnus //7///V////r///, aud 

 resplendens, (Edic <':,!/ .sv/ y w,r/7/,/,v>, from Peru, by Tschudi, in the 'Arcbiv/ 

 pp. 387, 388. Lobivanellus personatm, from New Holland, by Gould, in 

 the ' Ann. Nat. Hist.' xi, p. 528. Endromiax aitstralis, Gould, in the ' Birds 

 of Australia,' (part 13). 



Pedionomus micrurus is distinguished by Gould as llu- second species of the 

 genus instituted by him. (Ann. xi, p. 14f>.) 



Our long-legged Plovers have been reduced li\ l'>ivlmi into five sub-species. 

 (Isis, p. 725.) That Totanus rjlotloides, Gould, from the Himalayah, cannot 



