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to have been acquainted^ we find the following omissions, all 

 references chronicled in the English Record : — Pennula millii, 

 g, and sp. n. ; Zapornia ivatersi, sp. n. ; Parra novce-guinecB, 

 sp, n. ; Hcemutortyx, g. n. ; Macropygia rufocastanea, sp, n. ; 

 Accipiter haivaii, sp. n. ; Astur sharpii, sp. n. ; Buteo mene- 

 triesi, sp. n. ; Aprosmictus chloropterus , sp. n. ; Picus har- 

 mandi, sp. n. ; Tanysiptera salvadoriana, sp. n. ; Callipharus, 

 g. renom. ; Floricola, g. n. ; lache, g. renom. ; Petasophora 

 rubrigularis, sp. n. ; Lichenops perspicillatus /3 andinus, sub- 

 sp. n. ; Tyrannus luggeri, sp. n. ; Arachnechthra edeni, sp, n., 

 Drepanis rosea and D. aurea, spp. un. ; Zosterops longirostris, 

 sp, n, ; Thryophilus zeledoni, sp. n. ; Graucalus solomonensis , 

 sp, renom.; Alseonax fantisiensis, sp, n. ; Eoptsaltria placens, 

 sp. n.; Microeca albofrontata, sp. n.; Siphia riifigidaris, sp. n. ; 

 Nigrilauda, g. n. ; Lanius bairdi, sp, n. ; Carduelis major, 

 sp, n. ; Loxigilla violacea j6 bahamensis, subsp. n. ; Pletro- 

 fringilla, g, n. ; Salicipasser, g. u. But to make amends for 

 these omissions, several species are noticed twice over, and 

 Geocichla avensis is entered as a tieiv species, described by 

 J. E. Gray (who died in 1875) in ' Stray Feathers' ! Space 

 fails us for noticing other omissions and mistakes, some of 

 which are doubtless due to the printer ; but the majority, we 

 fear, are the result of haste. 



The systematic arrangement (!) is fearful and wonderful. 

 Notornis mantelli, which certainly belongs to the Rallidce, is 

 placed with Casuarius ; Hylochelidon nigricans, a well-known 

 Australian member of the Hirundinidce, is to be sought for 

 under Laridce, whilst the family Liotrichidce is made up of 

 contingents from the Troglodytidce, Corvid(B{\), Timeliidce, 

 Dicruridce, and Pycnonotidce. Members of the Mniotiltid<B 

 and Tanagrid(B are united under the family Sylvicolidce , and 

 whilst the family Icteridce is admitted, Molothrus and Stur- 

 nella are placed amongst the Stiirnidce by the recorders. This 

 is but a sample of what might be said ; but it will serve our 

 purpose ; and we are forced to conclude that, as regards orni- 

 thology, at least, whatever causes of complaint there might 

 have been with the previously existing Records, the present 

 venture does not bid fair, unless great alterations a,re made 

 in its style of work, to give us more satisfactory information. 



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