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form of Scops asio from the coast-region of California as Scops 

 asio bendorei, and Mr. N. C. Brown a new race of Peuccea 

 rvficeps from Texas as Peucaa ruficeps eremoeca. Besides 

 this novelty, Mr. Brown^ during his successful reconnaisancc 

 in South-western Texas, managed to obtain no less than 

 seven examples of the rare DendroRca chrysoparia. 



34-. Dubois on certain Thrushes. 



[Remarques an siijet cle quek{ues Grive^. Par Alph. Dubois. Bull. 

 Soc. Zool. d. France, 1881, p. 142.] 



M. Dubois's remarks are specially in reference to M. 

 Viands paper in a former number of this Bulletin (1880, 

 p. 210) on the Thrushes of the Oreocincla group. M. Vian 

 correctly vindicates the distinctness of Turclus horsfieldi of 

 Java from T. lunulatus of Australia, and states that Turdus 

 hodgsoni, }iomeyer,=: Turdus mollisshnus, Blyth, nee T. vis- 

 civorus vel bonapartei. Notes on other species of Turdus are 

 added. 



35. Ewart on the Nostrils of the Cormorant. 



[On the Nostrils of the Cormorant {Thalacrocurax carbo). By Pro- 

 fessor J. C. Ewart, M.D. Jouru. Linn. Soc. Zool. xv. p. 455.] 



A short description of the external nares and nasal pas- 

 sage in the Cormorant — the aperture of the former being very 

 minute, as usual in the Steganopodes, in some of which it is, 

 at least in the adult, entirely absent (e. g. Plotus). 



36. Hamonville on African Birds in Europe. 



[Observations suj quelques Oiseaux africains captui-es dans I'Europe 

 meridionale. Par C. Baron d'llamouviile. Bull. Soc. Zool. de France, 

 1881, p. 16.] 



The author, in this paper, treats of Alauda reboudia of the 

 Algerian Sahara, and comes to the conclusion that the sup- 

 posed new Spanish Lark, Calandrella battica of Dresser, is 

 identical with it. Here, therefore, if the Baron is correct, is 

 another African bird in Europe ; but a great authority on 

 Spanish birds assures us the Baron is not correct, and that 

 the two species are not identical. 



