256 Mons. A. Milne-Edwards on the 



Corvus cor aw. 



Linaria montana. We are told it is common ! 



Passer domesticus. Already mentioned above, but an error 

 that cannot be too often pointed out. 



Emberiza citrinella. This is the last species I shall quote as 

 an egregious blunder. We are not only told that it is found 

 here, but that it is common too ! 



I have gone to greater length in reviewing this list than I at 

 first intended, To find fault is never an agreeable task; but as 

 it has been noticed in 'The Ibis/ and, in a few lines of intro- 

 duction, the author promises us a " more extensive work " on 

 the subject, it seems advisable, though the said work may never 

 see the light, to say as much as I have in the interest of orni- 

 thological truth and propriety. 

 Malta, March 1869. 



XXIII. — Researches into the Zoological Affinities of the Bird re- 

 cently described by Herr von Frauenfeld under the name of 

 Aphanapteryx imperialis. By Alphonse Milne-Edwards. 



(Plate VIL*) 

 Herr Georg von Frauenfeld has lately published two 

 figures of birds from a collection of paintings on vellum pre- 

 served in the library founded by the Emperor Francis I.f 



The first of these birds is a Dodo, of which the whole body 

 is of a unifoi'm brownish-grey, mixed with some blue reflec- 

 tions. Its body is much smaller than that of the birds repre- 

 sented in the pictures of the two painters Savary ; and the beak, 

 compared with the head, is much less stout. These facts incline 

 me to think that the painting has been made from a young 

 animal. 



The second figure (PI. VII.) represents a bird altogether un- 



* [We liave to acknowledge the kindness of M. Alphonse Milne- 

 Edwards in placing at our disposal impressions of this plate, which illus- 

 trates his paper on the same subject in the ' Annales des Sciences Na- 

 turelles' 5® s^r. x. pp. 325-346). It is a very faithful representation on a 

 reduced scale of the original. — Ed.] 



t [C/. Ibis, 1868, pp. 480-482.— Ed.] 



