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now, we believe, in this country, since the removal of Mr. Gould's 

 type to Philadelphia. There are also four drawings representing 

 the nest of the Mallee-bird of South Australia [Leipoa ocellata), 

 and a stuffed example of the bird alongside. The drawings are 

 not of very great artistic skill, but every additional record of the 

 eccentric nidification of this tribe of birds is worthy of comment. 

 Western Australia is contented to exhibit some Emeu's eggs, 

 which we suppose may be taken to be those of Mr. Bartlett's newly 

 recognized species or variety, Dromceus iri'oratus (P. Z. S. 1859, 

 p. 205, and 1860, pp. 205, 211), especially as the tippets and 

 muffs manufactured of this bird's feathers present the well-de- 

 fined terminal spot of that species. From the Bahamas, the Cape 

 of Good Hope, and Ceylon, we have failed to discover any ornitho- 

 logical specimens, except some edible birds'-nests (of CoUocalia 

 fuciphaga, we presume) from the last-mentioned colony. India 

 sends only bundles and fans of Peacock's feathers, and so does not 

 do much to elucidate her still imperfectly known Ornis. Jamaica 

 and Mauritius are equally unrepresented as far as ornithology 

 goes. The Commissioners for Natal show, among other spe- 

 cimens of natural history, four cases (No. 7) set up by Mr. Ward 

 of London, containing a fine series of the birds of this colony, 

 prepared under the superintendence of their Hon. Secretary, 

 Dr. R. J. Mann. Amongst these we may mention, as parti- 

 cularly worthy of notice, an example of Spiza'etus zonurus, of 

 which Mr. Gurney has lately spoken in these pages (see antea, 

 p. 150) ; Bubo lacteus, not previously known to occur in Natal; 

 and the large Wattled Goose [Sarcidiornis regia). New Bruns- 

 wick exhibits nothing in our way. Newfoundland offers us, among 

 others from the collection of the late Mr. W. H. Ellis, M.P.P., 

 three cases of Lagopus albus (No. 1), containing a fine series of 

 seventeen individuals, and exemplifying the autumn, winter, and 

 summer plumages of that widely spread and ever-changing species. 

 From the same colony Mr. N.Norman sends a couple of fairly pre- 

 served birds (No. 16); and Mr. G. Ehlers also transmits a photo- 

 graph (the specimen itself having been too much injui'cd to admit 

 of preservation) of a European Woodcock {Scolopax rusticola), 

 which was shot at an open spring near St. John's, on the 9th of Janu- 

 ary last, after some long-continued easterly winds. It is stated, in 



