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par son e^Daisseur ; en outre, Tespace denude qui existe sur le 

 cote de la tete est sensiblement plus large que chez le Drep. 

 albertisii et ne se retrecit pas en arriere des yeux ; les plumes 

 du dessus de la tete, qui affecteut une forme ecailleuse, sont 

 beaucoup plus foneees, d'un brun olivatre, et de chaque cote 

 du menton descend un trait brun en forme de moustache." 



He calls the species D. bruijnii, after Herr Bruijn of Ter- 

 nate. A Cyclopsittacus from the same district is designated 

 C. salvadorii. A new Muscicapine bird from Mount Arfak 

 is called Chloromyias laglaizei, sp. et gen. nov. ; and another 

 new bird of the same family, Pomareopsis semiatra. M. 

 Oustalet will pardon us, we trust, if we say that more exact 

 scientific descriptions (might we venture to add, in Latin?) of 

 these fine novelties would be very desirable. 



21. PelzeMs Report on the Progress of Ornithology in 



1878. 



[Bericlit liber die Leistungen in der Naturgescliichte der Vogel wahrend 

 des Jalires 1878, von August von Pelzeln. Wiegm. Arch. xlv. p. 381.] 



Herr von Pelzeln's report on ornithology for 1878 is drawn 

 up with its usual care and attention to details. We venture 

 to suggest that it would facilitate reference if the titles of the 

 papers given under each head (" Europe " &c.) were arranged 

 alphabetically, according to the names of the authors. 



22. Reichenow and Schalow's ' Compendium.' 



[Compendium der neu beschriebenen Gattungen und Arten. Von 

 Anton Reichenow und Herman Scbalow. Joiu'u. f. Orn. 1880.] 



In these most useful papers, published in the ' Journal fiir 

 Ornithologie,^ the authors propose to give copies of the dia- 

 gnoses or descriptions of all newly described genera and spe- 

 cies of birds. They beg the assistance of their brother orni- 

 thologists in this important undertaking, and request to be 

 favoured with copies of their papers for this object. In this 

 request we join most heartily, as also in their further sug- 

 gestion, that all diagnoses should be written in Latin, as the 

 universal literary language. 



