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Avifauna of the Andaman Islands," which appeared in our 

 Journal for 1867 (pp. 314-334), particularly when that article 

 contained a large number of Col. Tytler's notes, furnished by 

 him to its author, and bringing our knowledge of the subject up 

 to a much later period. A comparison of the two papers will 

 show that Col. Tytler finally did not admit Cuculus striatus or 

 C. varius as Andamauese species, and the same with Dicaum 

 cruentatum and D. minimum. The Corvics culminatus of his 

 letter is the C. andamanensis of Mr. Beavan, as this gentleman 

 informs us ; the Collocalia brevirostris and C. fuciphaga, are the 

 C. nidifica and C affinis respectively ; the Arachnuthera flavi- 

 gastra is A, pusilla, and the Nectarinia goalpariensis probably N. 

 pectoralis. 



The papers contained in our respected contemporary which are 

 not original, are more numerous. They contain the conclusion 

 of Professor Sundevall's remarks on Levaillant, before mentioned 

 by us (Ibis, 1868, p. 103), translated by M. Olph-Galliard*, 

 and a very curious note (pp. 95, 96) communicated by the same 

 gentleman, relating to the occurrence in Sweden of Phalaris 

 psittacula, an example of which was taken alive near Jonkoping 

 in that country about the middle of December 1860 ! We 

 are indebted to our kind friend Professor Sundevall for some 

 further particulars of this extraordinary fact. The bird had 

 crept through a fence set along the edge of the water by the 

 side of Lake Vettern, into the courtyard of a weaving-manu- 

 factory, where it was caught by two men and soon after died. 

 The next day it w^as taken to Jagmastare Sandblad, of Tenhult, 

 who has a good collection of birds. There it still is, its species, 

 however, having been determined by Professor Eredrik Wahl- 

 gren, of the University of Lund, who sent a notice of the cir- 

 cumstance, with a description and figure of the specimen, to the 

 Swedish ' Jagare-forbundets nya Tidskrift' for 1867 (p. 108). 

 The figure. Professor Sundevall adds, is tolerably good. The 

 remaining ornithological papers in the ' Revue ' are by M. 

 Alphonse Milne-Edwards and M. Grandidier, and reprinted from 



* For separately printed copies (in which many of the errors of the 

 press to be found in the original reprint are corrected) of this useful 

 work we are greatly indebted to the author, and also to the translator. 



