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of blue-gvey and black ; others with larger round or irregular 

 blotches, partly obliterated; others again, with a rather light 

 ground and almost entire absence of the bright under- markings, 

 are provided with larger dark red-brown points and obsolete 

 blotches of bright red-brown. In the structure of the shell 

 they come very near those of the preceding [H. elaica) ; yet the 

 granulation of most of them is decidedly more elevated and 

 finer. Keeping this point in view along with their less weight, 

 smaller size, and more greyish ground-colouring, it would not 

 be difficult in most cases to separate the eggs of this African 

 form from those of its Grecian ally." 



The same part of the ' Bulletin ' contains likewise (p. 24) an 

 ''Esquisse de PHistoire uaturelle de Kamienietz, Podolski, par 

 Gustave Belke," in the course of which some account of the birds 

 of this district of Podolia is given. There seems not much 

 noticeable, except perhaps that Otis tarda, " tres commune et 

 en grande quantite, reste chez nous en hiver." 



4. American Publications. 



The ' Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of 

 Philadelphia,^ which we have received up to p. 270 of last year's 

 volume, contain, besides Mr. J. Xantus's Catalogue of Birds col- 

 lected near Fort Teyon, California (p. 189), already noticed, a 

 paper by Dr. T. Charlton Henry, on the Birds of New Mexico 

 (p. 104), and a continuation of Mr. Cassin's valuable " Catalogue 

 of Birds collected on the rivers Camma and Ogobai, Western 

 Africa, by Mr. P. B. Du Chaillu in 1858, with notes and descrip- 

 tions of new species '' (pp. 133 and 172). The total number of 

 species enumerated in this list is 238. The new birds now cha- 

 racterized are Hi/p hant or nis cinctns and Columbaunicincta. There 

 are many others of great interest. 



To Professor Baird's kindness we are indebted for early copies 

 of a very interesting communication made to the Boston Society 

 of Natural History, by Dr. Henry Bryant, entitled, " A List of 

 Birds seen at the Bahamas from Jan. 20 to May 14, 1859, with 

 descriptions of new or little-known species.^' * Dr. Bryant gives 



* See Proc. Boston Soc. N. H. vii. j). 102. 

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