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35. Rothschild and Hartert on the Fauna of the Galapagos. 



[Farther Notes on the Fauna of the Galapagos Islands. By the 

 Hon. Walter Rothschild and Ernst Hartert. Nov. Zool. ix. p. 373.] 



Besides most interesting additions to our knowledge of the 

 Giant Tortoises of the Galapagos, this paper contains a series 

 of notes on the birds recently obtained by Mr. Beck and 

 other collectors, and concludes with a revised list of the 

 species now known of this most remarkable avifauna. They 

 are 108 in number. The whole of the Passeres (61), except 

 Hirundo enjthrogastra (a migrant) and Dolichonyx oryzi- 

 vorus (an accidental visitant), are peculiar to the group. 

 Corvus corax clarionensis, from Clarion Island, and Speotyto 

 cunicidaria becki, from Guadeloupe Island, are new subspecies. 

 A good coloured figure is given of the flightless Cormorant 

 {Phalacrocorax harrisi) . 



3G. Salvadori on a new Lark. 



[Nuova specie del genere Ammommtes. [Per] Tommaso Salvadori. 

 Boll. Mus. Zool. ed Anat. Torino, xvii. no. 42->.] 



The author bases Ammomanes assabensis, sp. now, on two 

 specimens from Assab, on the western coast of the Red Sea, 

 in the Museum of Turin, and a third in the Museum of the 

 University of Rome. It is allied to A. deserti, A. saturata, 

 and A. akeleyi. 



37. Seth- Smith on Parrakeets. 



[Parrakeets : being a practical Handbook to those Species kepi in 

 Captivity. By David Sett-Smith, F.Z.S., M.B.O.U. Parti'. August, 

 1902. R. II. Porter: London. Pp. 41-80 and 3 plates. Price" 6*' 

 net.] 



The present part contains the genera Conurus, Conuropsis, 

 Cyanolyseus, Henicognathus, Microsittace, Pyrrhura, Myo- 

 psittacus, Bolborhynchus, Psittacula, and Brotogerys, and gives 

 — sometimes in considerable detail— the habits, food, and 

 so forth. Coloured figures are given of Conurus (oruginosus, 

 C. cactorum, Cyanolyseus patagonicus, Pyrrhura leucotis, and 

 P. perlata. 



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