270 Notes on Mr. Layard's * Birds of South Africa.' 



(3) Merula litsitsirupa, A. Smith, Rep. p. 45. 

 Between the Orange River and Tropic. 



(4) Alauda chuana, A. Smith, Rep. p. 46. 

 Beyond Latakoo. 



(5) Cinnyris talatala, A. Smith, Rep. p. 53. 

 Between the Orange River and Kurrichaine. 



(6) Chrysoptilus bennetti, A. Smith, Rep. p. 53. 

 About and beyond Kurrichaine. 



— together, perhaps, with Chrysoptilis abingoni, A. Smith (Rep, 

 p. 53), from the same locality as the last, though it is considered 

 by Prof. Sundevall (Consp. Av. Picin. p. 64) to be identical with 

 the southern form of Dendromus chrysurus, Sw., Campethera 

 chrysura, no. 474 of Mr. Layard's work. 



Equally scarce with Sir Andrew Smith's 'Report' above 

 noticed is the * South African Quarterly Journal;' and as this 

 Magazine contains many important papers by him, a few woi'ds 

 respecting it may not be amiss here. We have not been able 

 to find a complete copy of it anywhere, though we have made 

 every efibrt to do so. That in the library of the Zoological 

 Society is the most perfect to which we have had access ; but in 

 it Nos. I. and V. of the first series, and No. 2. part 2 of the 

 second are missing. The first, second, and third numbers, 

 however, are contained in the library of the Linnean Society, 

 and the first and fourth in that of the Colonial Office ; but the 

 rest we have been unable to meet with. As the dates at which 

 the various numbers and parts of this 'Journal' were published- 

 are of some consequence, owing to the numerous species therein 

 described, while they are not given accurately in any biblio- 

 graphical work with which we are acquainted*, we think that 

 the following brief particulars may not be without interest to 

 our readers. 



* The Catalogue of scientific papers recently published by the Royal 

 Society omits all notice of this Journal, though, besides Sir Andrew 

 Smith's zoological papers, it contains original articles by Sir John Her- 

 schel, Dr. Whewell, and other men of science. 



