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C. cacalotl and C cai-nivorv^, there can be no question that the 

 Corvus nobilis of Gould, C. cryptoleucus of Couch, and C. ja- 

 maicensis are good species. 



The second paper of Prof. Schlegel is on the Corvus pyrrho- 

 pterus, discovered by Forst'eu in Gilolo, and the type of Bona- 

 parte's genus Lycocorax. It is accompanied by a figure. In 

 this case we think that Bonaparte's generic name should be 

 used. The bird is no Pica (!), but allied to Barita and that 

 group. Mr. Wallace has lately forwarded several examples of 

 it from Batchian. 



The third volume of the ' Acta Societatis Indo-Neerlandicse ' 

 (Batavia, 1857), which we have only lately seen, contains an 

 article by Dr. H. A. Bernstein " Over de zoogenoemde eetbare 

 Vogelnesten en den Nestbouw van eenige andere javasche 

 Vogels." This appears to have been the origin of the paper in 

 Cabanis' Journal alluded to antea, p. 94. The same volume also 

 contains " Contributions to the knowledge of the Hornbills of 

 Sumatra" by H. von Rosenberg. In addition to the nine species 

 enumerated in the * Verhandelingen ' as found in Sumatra, the 

 author has met with Buceros plicatus and B, cori-ugatus. He ob- 

 serves also that the B. gracilis of Temminck is the young of 

 the latter species. 



From Sweden we have a ' Comparative List of the Birds of 

 Scandinavia and Great Britain *,* printed in English and 

 Swedish, very convenient for the numerous English travellers 

 who now visit Norway. 



In the ' Ofversight af Kongl. Vetenskaps-Akademiens For- 

 handlingar ' for 1858, Herr Conservator W. Meves has given an 

 account of a zoological tour in Lappmark, which contains 

 many notes on birds, and will be intei'esting to such as un- 

 derstand Swedish. In the same volume will be found some 

 remarks by C. G. Lowenhjelm on Sylvia tithys and Emberiza 

 lapponica. 



* Cailstad, 1859, 18 pp. London: Triibner & Co. 



