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we have previously spoken'^j seems^ after all, to be perhaps 

 only an individual variety of Coturnix dactylisonans. Of the 

 fact of its having been obtained in Lombardy we believe there 

 can be no question. No lover of birds who visits Milan 

 should omit to pay a visit to the Casa Turati and its hospitable 

 proprietor. 



New Series of the Zoologist. — The 113th number of the 

 'Zoologist/ issued last month, closes the second series of this 

 popular periodical, which has done very much, as most of our 

 readers well know, to promote the study of natural history 

 among the rising generation. The number is for the most 

 part very appropriately occujjied with a portrait and memoir 

 of the late Mr. Edward Newman, the founder and, for thirty- 

 four years, editor of the 'Zoologist.-' A new series, com- 

 menced on the 1st of this month, is edited by our colleague 

 Mr. J. E. Harting, whose abilities to carry on the good work 

 satisfactorily no one is likely to question. 



New Work on the Fauna of Belgium. — We have received 

 a prospectus and specimen of a new work on the fauna of 

 Belgium, to be entitled " Fauue Illustree des Vertebres de la 

 Belgique par Alphonse Dubois,''-' and to be published by Mu- 

 quardt and Co., of Brussels. The series containing the birds 

 will be issued in 140 livraisons at 2 francs each, and will 

 give coloured figures of the birds, adult and young, and 

 their eggs and nests. This series will ultimately form three 

 volumes, 8vo. 



Tonquin and the wag there. — Amongst the Parliamentary 

 papers lately issued is a Report by SirB. Robertson, H.B.M. 

 Consul at Canton, of a visit lately paid by him to Haiphong 

 and Hanoi — two new ports lately opened by the French at 

 Tonquin. Hanoi, the capital of Tonquin, is situated on the 

 Song-koi, or Red River, about 100 miles from its mouth. 



* See Ibis, 1862, p. 380, and Mr. Howard Saunders's remarks, Ibis, 

 1869, p. 393. 



