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to which frequent reference is made in his ' Musee d^Histoire 

 Naturelle des Pays-Bas^*^ and of which Dr. Schlegelhas ah-eady 

 spoken in these pages (see antea, p. 120). The first part of 

 this work^ which is issued under the distinguished editorship 

 of Dr. Schlegel, Dr. Bleeker, and Mr. J. F. Westerman, com- 

 mences with a paper by Dr. Schlegel, on the genus Gracula. 

 Dr. Schlegcl excludes Gymnoj)s calvus of the Phihppines and 

 Ampeliceps coronatus of Tenasserim, and enumerates the follow- 

 ing species of what he considers true Gracula. 



1. G. religiosa of Lower India and Ceylon. 



2. G. venerata of Sumbawa. 



3. G.javanensis of Malacca, Java, Sumatra, and Borneo. 



4. G. intermedia of Bengal, Nepal, and Tcnasserim. 



5. G. lidthii, sp. nov. ex patr. ignota. 



6. G. ptilogenys of Ceylon. 



7. G. clumontii of New Guinea and the Aru Islands. 



Of each of these full descriptive characters, with accompany- 

 ing observations, are given. We may remark that Mr. VVallace^s 

 lately ?-ediscovered Gracula pectoralis, of New Guineaf (P. Z. S. 

 1862, p. 164, pi. XX.), should be added as an eighth species to the 

 list j and that, on the same distinguished authority, we can give 

 the island of Flores as an additional locality for G. venerata. 



A second ornithological paper is commenced in the same 

 number, being a list, by Mr. Otto Finsch, of the Parrots living 

 in the Zoological Gardens at Amsterdam. When this is com- 

 pleted, we propose to institute a comparison between it and that 

 of the species living in the Zoological Society of London's Gar- 

 dens, as given in their lately published catalogue J of the Verte- 

 brata living in their Gardens. IMeanwhile we may notice that 



onder redactie vanll. Schlegel, P. Bleeker, en G. F. Westerman. Jahrg. 1, 

 Afd. 1. Amsterdam, 1863. 



* "We much regret that, in our own notice of this new work {antea, 

 p. 105), we have inadvertently written Gypaetus for Gypo-hierax — the lat- 

 ter being the form which Dr. Schlegel unites to Halia'eius. 



t See also Mr. Gray's critical remarks on the synonyms of this species, 

 Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 3. vol. x. p. 472, and Mr. Wallace's reply, ibid. xi. 

 p. 15. 



X List of Vertebrated Animals living in the Gardens of the Zoological 

 Society of London, 1862. London, Longmans, 1862. 



