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58. Read on the Colours of Birds. 



[The Nature, Distribution, and Uses of the Colours of Birds. By R 

 H. Read, M.B.O.U. N. Staffordshire Naturalists' Field Club, Nov. 20th, 

 1894.] 



We have received a separate copy of this excellent little 

 paper, read before the North Staffordshire Field Club. 

 Mr. Read has evidently given considerable attention to a 

 subject which was neither too severe, nor yet too trivial, for 

 the audience he addressed. To speak of Keeler's ^'work^' 

 is somewhat misleading, for, though good in matter, it is 

 merely a paper on 'The Evolution in the Colou^r of the 

 Land-Birds of North America,^ published at San Francisco 

 in 1893. 



59. Rothschild on new Species of Birds. 



[A new Species and Genus of Rollers. By the Hon. Walter Roth- 

 schild. Novitates Zool. ii. p. 479. 



A new Species of Bower-bird. Id. ibid. p. 480. 

 A new Species of Rail. Id. ibid. p. 481. 

 A new Species of Tanager. Id. ibid. p. 481. 

 On a new Parrot. Id. ibid. p. 492.] 



In the fourth number of vol. ii. of * Novitates Zoologicae,' 

 IVIr. Rothschild describes the following novelties: — (1) Ura- 

 telornis chimcera, a very remarkable new form from Mada- 

 gascar allied to Atelornis ; (2) Amblyornls flavifrons, a new 

 Bower-bird from Dutch New Guinea ; (3) Hypotoenidia 

 owstoni, a new Rail from Guam, Marianne Is. ; (4) Rampho- 

 celus dunstalli, a new Tanager from Central America ; and 

 (5) Palceornis intermedia, a new Parrot, supposed to be from 

 Bombay ! We are a little disinclined to believe that a new 

 Parrot has been discovered in British India, and venture to 

 suggest that further investigations should be made on this 

 subject. 



60. Salvadori on the Chenomorphae, Crypturi, and Ratitse. 



[Catalogue of the C7ie>iomorpha:, Crypturi, and Ratitce in the Collection 

 of the British Museum. By T. Salvadori. Lojidon, 1895.] 



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