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Appendix by Mr. Blyth, in which a summary of the little we 

 yet know of the natural history of this group of islands is 

 given. Of the class Aves sixty-one species are enumerated, of 

 which eight are, as far as is hitherto known, peculiar to the An- 

 damans, namely, 



Haematornis elgini, Blyth. Oreocincla infra-marginata, Blyth. 



Miilleripicus hodgei, Blyth. Copsychus albiventris, Blyth. 



Picus andamanensis, Blyth. Osmotreron chloroptera, Blyth. 



Dendrocitta bayleii, Tytler. Euryzona canningi, Tytler. 



Three others, Palaornis erythrogenys, Temenuchus erythropygius, 

 and Geocichla innotata, are common to the Andamans and Nico- 

 bar Islands. The remainder are species found also on the 

 neighbouring mainland the eastern coast of the Bay of Bengal. 

 Lieut.-Col. Tytler, a well-known Indian field-naturalist, being 

 now in command at Port Blair, will, we have little doubt, soon 

 render our knowledge of this interesting fauna much more 

 complete. 



Mr. Sabine Baring-Gould's new work upon Iceland * contains 

 besides various interesting passages on the birds met with during 

 his travels scattered through its pages, an essay on the ornithology 

 of that country, from the pen of our valued contributor Mr. Alfred 

 Newton, which those who know the extent of Mr. Newton's 

 acquaintance with the birds of Arctic Europe and America will 

 hardly require to be told forms an exhaustive resume of the 

 present state of our knowledge of this subject. Mr. Newton 

 commences with a short historical summary of works relating to 

 Icelandic ornithology, followed by a list of authors and their 

 writings. He then proceeds to give a sketch of the avifauna 

 of Iceland in the following terms : — " The character of the avi- 

 fauna of the country, as might have been expected from its 

 geographical position, is essentially European, just as that of 

 Greenland has American tendencies. Indeed, dismissing from 

 our consideration the species of purely Polar type, which are 

 common to the whole Arctic region, there are, as far as my 

 knowledge extends, only four or five which make Iceland their 



* Iceland : its Scenes and Sagas. By Sabine Baring-Gould. London, 

 1863. Smith, Elder, & Co. 



