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Brush-tongue Lories to an equal rank with the groups ah-eady 

 named has been very strongly insisted upon by Mr. Wallace; and 

 as Dr. Finsch agrees therein, we suppose that the position will 

 be now freely conceded to them. 



Our author divides the Parrots, of which he recognizes 351 

 good species, besides 41 doubtful ones, into 26 genera. From 

 this it will be seen that he is by no means a great maker either 

 of species or genera ; indeed of the former we think he scarcely 

 acknowledges all that deserve recognition. Only one species, 

 Bolborhynckus luchsi (ii. p. 121), is described as new, the generic 

 name of which, if it is to be used at all (being of later date than 

 Mijiopsitta), should be spelt as we have done, and not Bolbor- 

 rhynchus. Finally, let us say that a capital index concludes this 

 most laborious and valuable work, for which Dr. Finsch deserves 

 the best thanks of ornithologists in general, and of psittaco- 

 philites in particular ; we only wish we had any praise to 

 bestow on the plates representing Brotogerys subccerulea, B. chry- 

 sosema, Chry satis guatemala, Coryllis"^ exilis, aiudDomicella fuscata 

 — the less we say of them the better. 



5. Norwegian. 



A good list of the birds of Norway has long been a great 

 desideratum; our friend Herr Robert Collett has done much 

 towards supplying the want by publishing a catalogue of them 

 with notes t, chiefly treating, as the title of the paper indicates, 

 of the geographical distribution of the birds in the country, and 

 prefacing it with an excellent list of authorities. As regards 

 the middle and south of the kingdom, the parts which have 

 come personally under the inspection of the author or his imme- 

 diate friends, the information seems to be all that can be desired ; 

 but as regards the north we think more is needed. Assertions, 

 for instance, have been made over and over again that certain 

 of the wading-birds, whose summer retreat is the puzzle of 



* Coryllis is a name whicli the author in following his very strict rules 

 of nomenclature is obliged to bestow on the genus usually known aa 

 Loricuhts. 



t Norges Fugle, og deres geographiske Udbredelse i Landet, af Robert 

 Collett. Saerskilt aftrykt af Vidensk.-Selsk. Forhandlinger for 1868. 

 N. S. VOL. V. Q 



