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country. It contains many papers of interest by the editor 

 and other Indian ornithologists. But we must protest against 

 the publication of such articles as that by Capt. Hutton on 

 the " Parroquets of India/' in which one species is described 

 as " totally distinct " because it sits still all day, and another 

 (not yet obtained) because it is said to breed at a different 

 season. Mr. Stoliczka gives an interesting note on the struc- 

 ture of Indicator, in confirmation of its affinity to the Capi- 

 tonidse. 



We believe that no portion of Mr. Hume's new general 

 work on Indian birds, to be entitled ' A Conspectus of the 

 Avifauna of India and its dependencies/ has yet made its 

 appearance. 



Major Godwin-Austen's last visit to the Naga Hills and 

 Munipore has resulted in the discovery of ten new species of 

 birds, which were described at the Zoological Society's meet- 

 ing on the 6th of January last. These were named Sitta na- 

 gensis, Garrulax galbanus, G. albosuperciliaris, Trochalopteron 

 cineraceum, T. virgatuni, Actinodura waldeni, Layardia robi- 

 ginosa, Prinia rufula, Cisticola muni pur ensis, and Munia subun- 

 dulata. An eleventh has since been described in the Annals 

 of Nat. Hist. (ser. 4, vol. xiii. p. 160) as Sibia pulchella. 



Dr. John Anderson, of Calcutta, is in this country on leave, 

 but by no means idle, as he is engaged in working up the 

 zoological collections of the ''Yunan" Expedition, to which 

 he was attached as naturalist. After some pressure the Indian 

 Government have been induced to give liberal aid to this un- 

 dertaking ; and the results will shortly be published in the 

 Linnean Society's ' Transactions.' The new species of birds 

 have, it vrill be recollected, been already diagnosed in the 

 P. Z. S. 1871, p. 211 ; but the forthcoming work will give an 

 account of all the species met with in the terra incognita tra- 

 versed by the expedition. 



As regards the more eastern parts of the Indian region, we 



hear of a work on the birds of Borneo, mainly foimded on 



Doria's collections in Sarawak, as shortly to be published in 



Italy*. Of Lord Walden's valuable article on the birds of the 



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