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the commoner of the Australian birds, the Honey-eaters {Me- 

 liphaga) average two, and some of the species lay only one solitary 

 e^^, the Wattle-bird [Anthochara) two or three, the Sericornis 

 tribe three, the Zosterops three, the Wood-swallows (Artamus) 

 four, &c. This opinion is corroborated by the fact that the few 

 exceptional species, the individuals of which are really numerous, 

 such as the Common Quail [Cuturnix pecturalis) and some of the 

 Parrakeet tribe, are found to be great layers, the Quail pro- 

 ducing from eleven to fourteen and the Parrakeets from six to 

 fourteen eggs/^ 



Messrs. Ansted & Latham's nicely got-up work on the Channel 

 Islands* contains a list of the birds met with in the islands, and 

 some few notes on the general character of the bird-fauna and 

 its peculiarities. The Catalogue, which includes 198 species 

 (a large number for so limited an area), many of them, however, 

 probably merely stragglers, was prepared for the work by Mr. 

 Gallienne, who says, " The Rook and the Jay are rarely seen 

 here [i. e. in Guernsey), though they are both indigenous to 

 Jersey." We had always understood that just the contrary 

 was the case with regard to the first-named species, although 

 we know efforts have been made to introduce it from England. 

 " The Storm-Petrel breeds in large numbers at Burton, and a few 



on other rocks near Alderney The Ring-Ouzel stays 



with us throughout the year, but, like the Missel-Thrush in 

 England, is more plentiful in winter than in summer." 



2. German, Russian, and Dutch Publications. 

 Wiegman's ' Archiv fiir Naturgeschichte' for the past year, be- 

 sides the usual elaborate report on the progress of our favourite 

 science for the previous year, from the pen of our good friend 

 Dr. Hartlaub (which we assume, as a matter of course, that 

 every ornithologist will refer to), contains an article by Herr 

 Landbeck, of Santiago, in Chile, on the Coots of his adopted 

 country t- Mr. Landbeck does not seem to be acquainted with 



* The Channel Islands. By David Thomas Ansted and Robert Gordon 

 Latham. 1 vol. 8vo. London, 1862. 



t " Ueber die Chilesischen Wasserhiihner aus der Gattung Fulica, Linn./' 

 von Ludwig Landbeck in Santiago, Arch. f. Nat. 1862, p. 215. 



