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mcnced by one jungle-cock, is answered by every other within hear- 

 ing ; then, with hostile intent and alternate sounds of defiance, they 

 gradually advance to their morning combat ; they are even more 

 pugnacious than their domestic brethren ; and I have seen jungle- 

 cocks, when replied to (apparently in a very different dialect) from 

 the fowl-yard, advance within its precincts, and give battle to its 

 Champions. In taste their flesh resembles that of the pheasant : in 

 appearance, the males are like the common red dunghill-cock, only 

 with more glossy plumage, and a yellow spot in the centre of the 

 red upright comb ; the female is much smaller, and in colour resem- 

 bles the heath-hen of the moors." 



I know the species referred to by Major Forbes, and suspect it is 

 that named G. Lafayettei ; being distinct from that of which the hen 

 is figured in Hardwicke's ' Illustrations ' by the name G. Stanleyi, 

 and which inhabits more elevated ground. The habits portrayed 

 are very decidedly those of a polygamous species ; and (equally with 

 those before cited of G . ferrugineus) vividly recal to mind those of 

 the British pheasant. And G. Sonneratii will answer and defiantly 

 crow against a common fowl, however widely different its voice, the 

 same as the Ceylon species ; at least I speak of G. Sonneratii when 

 tamed, but not domesticated, and which if he breaks loose is most 

 readily recaptured by putting out a common domestic cock to entice 

 him to combat. 



P. 393. Is not Turdus rvfulus , Drapiez, vel modestus, Eyton, iden- 

 tical with T. javanicus, Horsfield, vel concolor, Temminck ? 



As regards the Lanius phcenicurus and L. super ciliosus, I may re- 

 peat my observation that the colouring characteristic of the latter is 

 peculiar to the Malayan bird, common as L. phcenicurus is through- 

 out India ; but that what I now consider to be females or young males 

 of the former are undistinguishable from the Indian L. phcenicurus. 

 L. tigrinus is distinct altogether : and I may remark that I have 

 lately described a beautiful new shrike from the Tenasserim pro- 

 vinces, which is very nearly allied to L. Hardwickii. 



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Recherches sur les Animaux Fossiles, par L. de Koninck. Liege, 1847. 

 (Premiere Partie, Monographic des Genres Productus et Chonetes.) 



This is the first of a series of works entitled ' Researches on Fossil 

 Animals,' containing monographs of the genera Productus and Cho- 

 netes. These works are intended to supply the geologist and natu- 

 ralist with complete monographs of different genera, so as to embody 

 in one volume all the species of a genus which are now more or less 

 distributed through many periodicals, memoirs and transactions of 

 Societies. The first part contains a list of 107 works and memoirs 

 to which the author has referred in the subsequent pages. To this 



