106 Recent Ornithological Publications. 



distinction than did John Wolley that which this one discovery 

 will always associate with his name. 

 Elvedeu, 20th November, 1860. 



IX. — Recent Ornithological Publications. 



1. English Publications. 



The 30th number of Mr. Bree's work is just issued, and com- 

 pletes the second-volume of ' The Birds of Europe not observed 

 in the British Isles/ 



2. French Publications. 



We have received the ' Revue et Magasin de Zoologie ' up to 

 No. 10 for 1860. Dr. Sacc's article " sur les Poules de Nankin 

 dites de Cochinchine " (p. 339 et seq.) contains more economical 

 than zoological information concerning this exaggerated variety 

 of the Domestic Fowl, which seems to have originated in the 

 warmer portions of the interior of China. Like the Chinese 

 Sheep, its great value consists inits extreme prolificness. In 

 1858, Dr. Sacc informs us, the number of eggs laid by five 

 pairs of Cochinchinas amounted to no less than 732, or 146 

 for each hen ! In their essay " on the Birds of New Caledonia," 

 in Nos. 9 and 10, MM. Jules Verreaux and Des Murs have 

 made an important contribution to our knowledge of geogra- 

 phical distribution, and have also introduced us to the acquaint- 

 ance of several novel and interesting forms. Their article is 

 founded on materials furnished by a collection of the natural 

 products of this new French coloujr, made under the superin- 

 tendence of M. Saisset, commander of the French naval forces 

 in the Pacific, which has been deposited in the " Exposition des 

 produits des colonies," now on view in the Palais de I'ludustrie 

 in the Champs Elysees at Paris. The series of birds there exhi- 

 bited, taken in connexion with the species indicated by previous 

 authorities on the subject*, give us the number of 76 species 

 now ascertained as belonging to the Avifauna of New Caledonia; 

 of which no less than 45 are, as far as is hitherto known, pecu- 



* Sclater in ' Ibis,' 1859, p. 27, and G. R. Gray in Proc. Zool. Soc. 1859, 

 p. 160. 



