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Edwards selects the family Spheniscidse as one of its leading 

 organic types^ and reviews their distribution and generic 

 divisions. He then takes the latter one by one and treats of 

 the individual species and their distribution. The new generic 

 term Megadyptes is assigned to Catarrhactes antipodes, 

 Horabr. et Jacq., and Microdyptes to Eudyptes serresiana, 

 Oustalet. Many interesting notes and details are given in 

 this important article^ as also figures of the heads of different 

 forms of Eudyptes, and a figure of Microdyptes serresiana. 



77. Milne-Edioards on Birds from Madagascar. 



[Observations sur quelques animaux de Madagascar. Par M. Alpb. 

 Milne-Edwards. Compt. Rend. t. xci. (27 Dec. 1880).] 



M. Milne-Edwards gives an account of the collections made 

 by M. Humblot, principally in the district between Fonte- 

 pointe and the Lake of Alaoutre. There are 101 species of 

 birds represented in the series, amongst which is a new species 

 ofAnastomus, allied to A. lamelliger, proposed to be called A, 

 madagascariensis, and three others new to the fauna, namely 

 Upupa epops, Saxicola isabellina, and Elanus cceruleus. 



78. Oustalet on two neiv Birds, 



[Description de deux oiseaux uouveaux de la Collection du Museum 

 d'Hlstoire naturelle de Paris. Par E. Oustalet. Le Naturaliste, 1880, 

 p. 32.3.] 



Cyanalcyon quadricolor, from Ncav Guinea (Bruijn), and 

 Ptilopus {Rha77iphicuh(s) marchei, from Luzon, Philippines 

 {Marche), are here described as new. The latter is a very 

 fine species, with a blood-red breast-patch. 



79. Oustalet on neiv Birds from the Sooloo Islands, 



[Description de deux oiseaux nouveaux des iles Sooloo. Par M. E. 

 Oustalet. Bull. Ass. So. France, 1880, p. 205.] 



In a collection from the Sooloo Islands, lately received 

 from MM. les Drs. Montano and Rey, besides examples of 

 the species lately recorded as belonging to the group by Mr. 

 Sharpe (P. Z. S. 1879, p. 311), are specimens of two new 

 species, Buceros montani and Ninox reyi. 



