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Nepalese bird has not even a trace of the large and conspicuous 

 white ante-ocular spot. 



That Zosterops japonicus (p. 365) of N.E. Asia should be 

 identical with Z. chloronotus, Gould*, of Western Australia, is, 

 when we recollect that Z. chloronotus itself is only the West- 

 Australian representative of Z. dorsalis, a statement so entirely 

 contrary to the canons of geographical distribution, that we should 

 hardly believe our eyes if it were proved to us by actual com- 

 parison of specimens. But what can we say when this identity 

 is established merely on an examination of Mr. Gould's figure 

 of the Australian bird ? The two species are, in truth, conspi- 

 cuously different, the Asiatic bird being much smaller, and 

 having the abdomen very differently coloured. 



Tetrao canadensis (p. 399). It is now well known, we should 

 have thought, to every European naturalist, that the Siberian 

 Grouse, called by Middendorf by this name, is by no means 

 identical with the American T. canadensis or T. franklinii, whether 

 these^ be considered as two species or as one. Dr. Hartlaub 

 pointed out the very marked and unmistakeable characters which 

 separate the Asiatic Tetrao falcipennis from the American bird 

 in 1855 (Cab. Journ. f. Orn. p. 39), and examples of the former 

 with its singularly constructed wing are now found in most of 

 the larger collections of Europe f- 



It would be easy to continue remarks of the same sort as the 

 preceding ; but we rather return to Dr. v. Schrenck's general 

 observations on the birds of Amoorland — a subject to which he 

 has devoted some very interesting pages. Of the 190 species 

 enumerated in the body of the work as appertaining to this por- 

 tion of its fauna, he considers berths to be Europseo-Siberian 

 and ^ths Siberian, the remaining y^th being intruders from 

 Southern Asia and more distant localities. An examination of 

 the eighteen species which are included in the latter category 

 gives us but few belonging to really extraneous types. Peri- 

 crocotus and Zosterops are the two most noticeable, if not the 

 only such, of which the former is a pure Indian genus, and the 



* The true name of this bird is Z. gouldi, Bp. (Consp. p. 398), — Z. 

 chloronotus being a Mauritian species. 



t We may particularize those of Paris, Bremen, and Brunswick. 



