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Bernicla leucolama ; and the occurrence of the new Eider-duck 

 {Somateiia, v. — nigrum) on Great Slave Lake is noticed. 



In the 3rd number of vol. xxvii. of the ' Journal of the Asiatic 

 Society of Bengal' (1858) will be found the "Report of the 

 Curator of the Zoological Department" (Mr. Blyth) for May 

 in that year, in which he notices several novelties. Twelve spe- 

 cies of birds from the Andaman Islands had lately been added 

 to the Museum : — Halcyon coromandelianus and H. smyrnensis, 

 Corvus culminatus, Kittacincla albiventris, sp. nov. (mentioned in 

 our last Number, as described in Mr. Blyth's letters), Sturnia 

 €7'ythropygia, Tephrodornis grisola, Geocichla innotata, Copsychus 

 saularis, Artamus leucorhynchus, Edolius, sp. ?, Pycnonotus jo- 

 cosus, and Carpophaga sylvatica. From a collection of stuffed 

 birds lately presented to the Society, Mr. Blyth describes a new 

 Lory — Eos fuscata (several specimens of this beautiful bird have 

 lately been transmitted from Havre-Dorey by Mr. Wallace) ; 

 Trichoglossus ochrocephalus, sp. nov., and T. immarginatns, sp. 

 nov. Mr. Blyth rather calls in question the distinctness of Lorius 

 tricolor and Lorius cyanauchen {superbus, Fras.) ; they are, how- 

 ever, in our opinion (formed on Mr. Wallace's specimens, of 

 which we have made mention below), quite different, and inhabit 

 different localities. A description is also given (p. 280) of the 

 Diardigallus fasciolatus, of which we spoke antea, p. 115. Is 

 this really different from D. prcelatus, Bp., C. R. xliii. p. 415 ? 

 In a recent letter Mr. Blyth says, " perhaps not." A di-awing, 

 apparently of this species, taken in Siam from the living bird by 

 Finlayson some years ago, is in the India House, and was exhi- 

 bited at a recent meeting of the Zoological Society by Mr. Gould. 



2. French Publications. 



The first part of a new work, entitled ' Richesses Ornitholo- 

 giques du Midi de la France,' published at Marseilles, by MM. 

 Jaubert and Barthelemy-Lapommeraye, is in our hands. There 

 is much information in this book about the rare birds which 

 visit the singular district called the Crau d' Aries and its vicinity. 

 Many of our readers will be surprised to learn that Vultur mo- 

 nachus is considered a regular bird of passage here, and that the 

 Otogyps has occurred in the same country, as testified by its 



