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een quite enough to enable us to declare that this important 

 subject is being most ably treated ; and we can well understand 

 the ' Grand Prix des Sciences Physiques ' being adjudged to 

 the author. At present the only extinct species illustrated in 

 the plates are Anas blanchardi, from the tertiary deposits of the 

 Allier, and A. velox and A. sansaniensis, from the miocene of the 

 hill of Sansan (Gers). Of the former, very considerable re- 

 mains exist. Fossil bones of Anas boschas, A. crecca, Cygnus 

 ferus, and Anser cinereics, from caverns or peat, are also figured. 

 The work, it is announced, when complete, will consist of two 

 volumes of text and one of plates, about two hundred in 

 number, and the price to subscribers the modest sum of 200 

 francs only. 



At a meeting of the Society Imperiale d'Acclimatation, on the 

 20th of April 1866, M. Geoffroy announced the arrival of a 

 collection of bird-skins, made in the north of China and sent 

 by M. Dabry, French consul at Hankow, in which were con- 

 tained some specimens of a beautiful new Monal, proposed to be 

 called Lophophorus Ihmjsi. It has a longer and stronger bill 

 and stouter legs than the well-known L. impeyanus. Its tail- 

 feathers are ornamented by metallic-blue reflexions. The head 

 has no crest, strictly speaking; but the feathers of the nape are 

 somewhat elongated. L'huys's Monal is a larger and finer bird 

 than its congener, the well-known Impeyan Pheasant. 



3. Dutch and Belgian. 

 The concluding portions of the third volume of the ' Neder- 

 landsch Tijdschrift voor de Dierkunde^ consist almost entirely 

 of ornithological papers, contributed by MM. Schlegel, Crom- 

 melin. Pollen, and Keulemans. The very small space which 

 we are able to devote to literary notices compels us to speak of 

 them in the briefest manner possible. Professor Schlegel's 

 three articles, entitled '^'Observations Zoologiques," contain 

 descriptions of several new species, all, we believe, discovered by 

 Dutch travellers or residents in the Malay Archipelago, besides 

 numerous facts or opinions respecting other birds. In addition 

 to these, he has longer or shorter notices of the species of the 



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