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figures are engraved are contained in Mr. Eyton's extensive 

 collection, and are so well selected that they give an almost 

 complete series of the principal forms of bird-structure. 



Mr. George Robert Gray has brought out another of his 

 useful ''Lists/^ and this time treats of the Gallinaceous Birds*, 

 of all groups perhaps that which required it most ; for it is many 

 years since any author has published a list of the species show- 

 ing their various synonyms. The present work exhibits several 

 improvements upon its predecessors : for example, species not 

 represented in the national collection are also enumerated 

 (though references to the passages wherein they are described 

 are not added, as might easily have been done) ; so that a very 

 complete conspectus is furnished, which every ornithologist will 

 know how to appreciate. Adhering in the main to his old 

 arrangement of the Order, Mr. Gray divides the Gallina into 

 seven Families : — Pteroclida, Cracidce, Megapodidce, Phasianida, 

 Tetraonid(B,Chiunidid(B, and Tinmnidce ; and descriptions of about 

 a dozen new species of the last, as well as a few others in the 

 remaining families, are given from types contained in the British 

 Museum. Without going into details as to these, we may men- 

 tion that the author has kindly informed us that he has since 

 found Francolinus rovuma, described (p. 53) as new, to be iden- 

 tical with F. grantii, Hartlaub (P. Z. S. 1865, p. 665). We do 

 not at all agree with Mr. Gray in the propriety of recognizing 

 a family Chionididce, and still less in assigning the birds com- 

 posing it to this Order. Chionis itself is most unquestionably 

 allied to Hatnatopics, and Thinocorus and Attagis possibly to 

 Actiturus ; but all these genera certainly belong to the great 

 Plover- Snipe group, first combined, we believe, by Nitzsch 

 under the name Limicola. 



The peninsula forming the ancient Duchy of Cornwall is not 

 merely, according to the common ornithological view of it, to 

 be regarded as a landing-place for stray birds fi'om the south 



* List of the Specimens of Birds in the Collection of tlie British 

 Museum. By G. R. Gray, F.R.S. Part v. GalUnce. London : 18G7. 

 12mo, pp. 120. 



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