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to the present ' List of Parrots ' are somewhat curt, this is a 

 much better plan than that of pubhshing names without any 

 description at all, as has been done on former occasions : and 

 we may hope that this practice, which has nowhere been more 

 loudly condemned than in the preface of one of the recent cata- 

 logues* published by the Trustees, has been now finally aban- 

 doned. 



The total number of Parrots enumerated in Mr. Gray's list 

 (which contains all described species, whether specimens are in 

 the national collection or not), arranged in the different sub- 

 families adopted by Mr. Gray, is as follow^s : — 



I. Pezoporinae 87 



II. Arinae 82 



III. Loriinae 69 



IV. Psittacinse 108 



V. Cacatuinae 34 



380 

 This gives us 151 species in the New World, and 229 in the 

 Old World. It is certainly remarkable, that of the latter group 

 only 25 f occur in Africa, though its geographical extent is so 

 great, and we know of nothing that would seem to unfit it for the 

 residence of Psittacida. 



Mr. Breeds work, on the ' Birds of Europe not observed in the 

 British Isles,' has reached its thirteenth number. We must again 

 call Mr. Bree's attention to the importance of consulting recent 

 authorities. The " Hooded Shrike " has, we believe, only occurred 

 in Spain in the imagination of dealers, whose object is always to 

 increase the list of "European" birds. (See Dr. Hartlaub's 

 notes in Proc. Zool. Soc. 1858, p. 292.) And Le Vaillant's 

 ' Tchagra ' is quite a different species from the L. cucullatus of 

 Temminck, a scarce bird even in Northern Africa ; so that 

 Temminck and Degland were not so far wrong, after all, in their 

 remark alluded to, p. 174. 



The second part of Mr. Eyton's ' Osteologia Avium ' is now 

 ready. It contains a continuation of the plates, and the letter- 



* Catalogue of Batracbia Salientia, by Dr. A. Giinther, 1858. 

 t Namely, Palceornis, 3 sp., Psittacus, 2 sp., Pyocephalus, 10 sp., 

 Agapornis, 6 sp., Coracopsis, 3 sp., and Mascarinus, 1 sp. 



