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Thamnophilus doliatus. Tringoides macularius. 



Tyrannus dominicensis ? Tringa maculata. 



Eulampis jugularis. Rallus, sp. 



„ holosericeus. Porphyrio martinica. 



Orthorhynchus ? Florida purpurea ? 



Lampornis ? Egretta ? 



Chloroceryle alcyon. Butorides virescens. 



„ americana. Ardea, sp. 



Astur magnirostris. Erismatura dominica. 

 Chamaepelia trochila. „ rubida. 



iEgialites ? Phalacrocorax ? 



Vanellus ? Sula fiber. 



But we hope, through the assistance of our esteemed friend, 

 M. Aubry Le Comte, Superintendent of the French Colonial 

 Exhibition, to be able to make a more accurate examination of 

 these birds, and a further special report thereon to ' The Ibis.' 



Germany, from whose standing-army of ornithologists we had 

 hoped better things, is absolutely as unaviferous as Greece, unless 

 a smoked Goose-breast from Mecklenburg-Schwerin and nume- 

 rous piles of down quilts — so abhorred by the British tourist — 

 be considered to form an exception. Yet the smart game-bags 

 and neat bird-cages testify at least to the philornithic taste of the 

 natives in one direction or another. We have not now the 

 pleasure even of contemplating any of those caricatures of 

 humanity by which Wiirtemberg contributed to the amusement 

 of crowds in the old Exhibition. The Ionian Islands, through 

 Signoi- Zanoni of Corfu, display some groups of birds, dusty and, 

 we must add, disagreeable, which are perched aloft, exposed to all 

 sorts of vicissitudes, as if the Septinsular delegates, in their 

 would-be independence, scorned the " protecting power " even of 

 a glass shade. Italy has nothing to show in our line, except some 

 injected specimens of the auditory organs of birds, sent by Prof. 

 Gaddi of Modena (Class 17, No. 1291) ; and neither Japan nor 

 Madagascar, the Netherlands nor Norway, are any better. The 

 guano of Peru may claim to be mentioned here ; but Portugal and 

 Rome have not even this questionable advantage. Fi-om Russia 

 there is a fine series of Tetraonidcs, exhibited by Herr P. Oos- 

 pensky (No. 591), which contains some interesting examples of 

 the so-called Tetrao medius, the commonest, perhaps, of all 



