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liar to that island. The most noticeable types are Nymphicus 

 [Psittacidce), Phcenorhina {Columbida) , and Rhinochetus* {Ar- 

 deidce). The last of these (which MM. Verreaux and Des Murs 

 now describe for the first time) is certainly very curious, .and ap- 

 pears to be quite distinct from any known form. Although, as it 

 is remarked, only 18 species of New Caledonian birds are iden- 

 tical with those of Australia, we may observe that there is much 

 of the Australian character in the presence of such genera as 

 Trichoglossus, Pachycejihala, Artamus, Campephaga, Acanthiza, 

 Glycfjphila, &c., and that we cannot therefore regard this 

 island as belonging to a zoological region distinct from the main- 

 land of Australia. With regard to Gazzola typica, we have al- 

 ready shown that this bird is found in Celebesf, and there is no 

 doubt that the habitat " New Caledonia " attributed to it in the 

 Paris Museum is erroneous, as is well known to be the case with 

 many other localities commonly assigned to objects brought back 

 by the French exploring expeditions J. 



M. J. P. Coinde, who has already, as he reminds us, distin- 

 guished himself by describing as new a '' Bomhy cilia" from 

 *' Mexico and Yucatan," which we believe to be probably nothing 

 more than Ampelis cedrorum, now gives us (p. 396) a "notice 

 sur la Faune ornithologique de I'ile de Saint Paul," in the 

 Northern Pacific. Among the nine species of birds, chiefly 

 marine, here enumerated, is a supposed undescribed Gull — Larus 

 warnecki, allied to Larus tridactylus, but possessing a hind-toe ! 



3. German, Dutch, Scandinavian, and Russian 

 Publications. 



The first number of the 'Archiv fiir Naturgeschichte ' for 

 1860 contains an ornithological paper by Dr. K. A. Philippi, 

 the well-known Professor of Zoology and Botany at Santiago, in 

 which he describes as new, two Ducks — Anas iopareia (scribe 

 ioparia), allied to A. specularis and A. oxyura, and Erismatura 

 vittata, and gives some remarks upon the synonymy of a spe- 

 cies of C/u-ysomitris found in Chili. 



* Nee Rhynochefos ; the derivation being, piv nasiis, and oxeros canalis. 

 t See ' Ibis/ vol. i. p. 113. + Confer Wallace in ' Ibis,' 1860, p. 1.98. 



