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the author in the paper formerly noticed, as above, in this jour- 

 nal ; and two others, Crateropus salvadorii and Sylvia cluria, are 

 now characterized as new. The Ornis of Western Persia is most 

 decidedly Eui'opean in its type, there having been only about 

 five species observed by Prof, de Filippi which do not show 

 themselves in our own quarter of the globe. It is said that the 

 Houbara Bustard of Persia is Houbara undulata and not H. 

 macqueeni. If so, we suppose it is also the former species which 

 is the "dweller in Mesopotamia," and not the latter as has 

 usually been thought. 



Dr. Salvadori has had the goodness to send us copies of two 

 papers lately communicated by him to the Italian Society of 

 Natural Sciences. The first* contains the characters of two new 

 genera, Defilippia and Heteronetta, respectively founded on Chce- 

 ivsia crassirostriSf De Filippi (J. f. O. 1855, p. 427), and Anas 

 melanocephala, Vieillot (Nouv. Diet. v. p. 163), A. nigricej)s, 

 Lichtenstein — the last specific, being, we believe, the one that 

 should stand, since melanocephala, was previously applied by 

 Graelin to a very difi'erent bird. The second f paper consists of 

 the descriptions of eight or nine new birds, Melaniparus semilar- 

 vaius from the Himalaya, Megalophonus rufocinnamomeus from 

 Abyssinia, Lamprocolius defilippii from Angola, (Edicnemus indicus 

 (=CE. crepitans ex India), (E. inornatus from the White Nile, 

 Porphyriops leucopterus from the Argentine Territory, Podiceps 

 affinis, apparently the South American representative of P. cooperi, 

 and Uria craverii from California, besides a Buzzard from Eastern 

 Africa, about which some doubts are entertained, but for which, 

 if it prove new, the name Buteo auguralis is proposed. 



4. Scandinavian. 

 The trite adage that " a great book is a great evil " is one 

 that is often forcibly impressed upon oi'nithologists ; Professor 

 Sundevall's new catalogue of Woodpeckers J, which contains 



* Intorno a due nuovi generi di Uccelli. Atti della Societa Italiana di 

 Scienze Natm-ali. Vol. viii. Milano : 1866. 



t Descrizione di altre nuove specie di Uccelli. Tomo citato. 



X Conspectus Avium Picinarum : edidit Carolus J. Sundevall. 

 Stockholmise : 1866. (London: Williams and Norgate.) 8vo, pp. 116. 



