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(the son of one of the companions of Pizarro and Ahnagro) was, 

 however, acquainted with this hird, and says it is called Parri- 

 huana. In the desert of Atacama it bears the abbreviated name 

 Parrina, and is without doubt the " Red-breasted Flamingo " of 

 which Mr. Bollaert speaks in his description of the province of 

 Tarapaca. It breeds on the elevated lakes of the Andes, and its 

 eggs are brought for sale to the market of Atacama in December. 

 At this time (January 19th) the females were incubating.^' 



Of the ' Journal fiir Ornithologie ' we have received numbers 

 3, 4, and 5 for the past year. Dr. Hartlaub's " Systematic 

 Review of the Birds of Madagascar " is completed in the third 

 number, and has been since issued in a separate form, which we 

 shall notice in our next Number. The same number contains 

 original articles by Dr. Cabanis on three African Thrushes, which 

 he proposes to form into a group, to be called Psophocichla; 

 and by Ferd. Heine on two new species of Alcedinida from the 

 Pacific islands, and on a new Xiphocolajites, belonging to the 

 typical section of the genus. 



In the 4th number of the same Journal is a very important 

 article by Professor Burmeister, being a systematic list of the 

 birds observed and collected by him during his recent expedition 

 to South America. The three stations chosen by Professor 

 Burmeister for his observations (at each of which he remained, 

 we believe, for about a year) were Parana, IMendoza, and Tucuman, 

 all in the Argentine Republic. Of these, the latter was in a 

 district far less known to naturalists than the two former, and, as 

 might have been expected, the most striking novelties in Professor 

 Burmeister's list were met with in this locality. The total number 

 of species enumerated in Professor Burmeister's list is 261, of 

 which no less than 23 are considered to be new* to science. 



Although we believe Professor Burmeister is preparing to 

 publish a work containing the results of his travels, and will, no 



* Falco punctipennis, however, is, we suspect, the bird already described 

 by Dr. Kaup (P. Z. S. 1851, p. 43) as Harpagus circumcinctus ; and Conurus 

 brunniceps, as we have ascertained by examination of a typical specimen 

 received from Prof. Burmeister by Mr. Salvin, is Conurus aymara (d'Orb.), 

 figured in Souance's unfinished work on Parrots, pi. 23. 



