342 Mr. A. Newtou on Palaeoriiis exsul. 



Vertical range. Occurs during passage in districts 1 and 2, 

 breeds in district 3, and occurs rarely during summer in dis- 

 trict 4. 



125 «. Cyanecula wolfi, Br. 

 Lusciola suecica /3. orientalis, Severtzoff, p. 65. 

 Horizontal range. Occurs during passage in district IV. 

 Vertical range. Is met with during passage in district 2. 



126. Erithacus rubecula (L.). 

 Lusciola rubecula, SevertzofF, p. 65. 



Horizontal range. Rare in winter in district III. ; observed 

 near the town of Chimkent. 



Vertical range. Rare in winter in district 2. 



[To be continued.] 



XXVII. — Note on Palseornis exsul. 

 By Alfred Newton, M.A., F.R.S. 



(Plate VII.) 



Since the naturalists who were attached to the expedition for 

 observing the late Transit of Venus at Rodriguez have re- 

 turned home without procuring a specimen of the Palceornis 

 which I some years ago described in this Journal (Ibis, 1872, 

 p. 33) as coming from that island, and it may possibly be 

 long before a second example of this rare bird is obtained, 

 further delay in availing myself of the editor's offer to figure 

 that which reached my hands in 1871 seems inexpedient. It 

 is still greatly to be regretted, however, that we do not know 

 the cock of this very peculiar species, because it has turned out 

 that the anticipation I formerly expressed as to the proba- 

 bility of his possessing greater beauty than the hen, here 

 represented (Plate VII.), was correct. 



A manuscript ' Relation de Tile Rodrigue,' found last year 

 at Paris, under circumstances which I have elsewhere ex- 

 plained, in laying some extracts from it before the Zoological 

 Society of London (P. Z. S. 1875, pp. 39-43), contains a brief 

 notice of a Parrakeet which there is apparently no danger of 



