2.24 Recent Ornitlwiogical Publications. 



Dr. Hartlaub^s masterly review of the species of this genus, 

 published in the 'Journal fiir Ornithologie' for 1853, or with 

 modern ornithological writings generally, so far as they bear on 

 this subject. We are enabled to state, on the highest authority, 

 that Landbeck's supposed new species, Fulica rufifrons, is Fulica 

 leucoj)yga of Hartlaub's monograph, and that Landbeck's F. 

 cMorojJoidcs is F. stricklandi, and Landbeck's F. chilensis F. 

 armillata of the same work. " The original specimen of 

 the very large F. chilensis of DesMurs and of Gay is certainly 

 not the bird described under that name by Landbeck. The 

 Fulica chilensis of Landbeck is the very common 'Focha de ligas 

 roxas' of Azara. The true F. chilensis, of which the type is in 

 the Paris Museum, has no red on the legs, and is altogether a 

 larger bird.' Landbeck, however, gives an interesting notice of 

 the colossal Fulica gigantea, which appears to occur only in the 

 high lakes of Northern Chile, at an elevation of some 16,000 

 feet, among the Andes. 



In the 'Bulletin of the Imperial Society of Naturalists of 

 Moscow' for 1861 will be found some field-notes*, by Arthur 

 Nordman, on the Amurian Tefrao wogalloides, the eastern repre- 

 sentative of the Capercailzie of Europe. Mr. Nordman's hunt- 

 ing-grounds for this bird were in the neighbourhood of the 

 Ilussian colony Staro-Michailowsk, on the right bank of the 

 Amoor, about 200 wersts from the mouth of that river. The 

 Tetrao iirogalloicles seems quite as different in its manners and 

 customs, as in its plumage and structure, from T. iirogallus ; 

 and those who are acquainted with the curious habits of the 

 European bird during the pairing-season will read with much 

 interest Mr. Nordman's excellent description of the different 

 but equally singular behaviour of its Amurian representative 

 during the same period. 



Since we last addressed our readers. Dr. Schlegel has kindly 

 forwarded the first part of the new Dutch Zoological Journal f, 



* " E'migc Beobachtungen iiber den Auerhalin am Amur," von Arthur 

 Nordman; Bull. Imp. Soc. Nat. Mosc. xxxiv. p. 261. 



t Nederlandsch Tijdschrift voor de Dierkunde, uitgegevcn door lict 

 Koninklijk Zoologisch Genootschap Natura Artis Magistra te Amsterdam 



