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the authors have not yet furnished the list of American species 

 of this genus, according to their laudable custom when they 

 have done with a subject, we suppose they have still some- 

 thing more to add respecting it. In attacking the American 

 Pigeons they have set themselves the very diflficult task of clearing 

 up the obscure genus Geotrijgon. The conflicting identifications 

 of Bonaparte and Mr. G. R. Gray will make their labour by no 

 means light. The whole of the American species of Columbce 

 require a searching revision. 



Part VI. comprises: — 



Chlorophonia froutalis. j Crypturus sallsei. 



„ longipeunis. | „ boucardi 



,, occipitalis. 



Melanotis liypoleucus. 

 Tiiiamus rubustus. 



meserytlirus. 

 Tigrisoma cabanisi. 



The Tinamous figured are all from Central America, north 

 of the Isthmus of Panama, and are, perhaps, all that have 

 hitherto been discovered in that region. We say " perhaps," 

 because Lesson^s Tinamus cinnamomeus and Bonaparte^s T. 

 delattrii may be species distinct from Crypturus sallcei, though 

 the matter is open to doubt. Still our friends have, probably, 

 used a wise discretion in not rejecting the name sallcei, about 

 which there can be no doubt, for either Lesson's or Bonaparte's 

 appellations, accompanied as they are by such insufficient descrip- 

 tions, to which no dimensions are appended. Tigrisoma cabanisi, 

 a very distinct species, was described by Herr F. Heine, as long 

 ago as 1859 ; but the description seems to have been overlooked 

 till Prof. Schlegel included the bird in his ' Museum des Pays- 

 Bas.' Its range seems to be strictly confined to Central America. 



As Eton claims precedence over the other public schools of 

 England, it is fitting she should show that in all branches of 

 human knowledge the pretension is well grounded ; and cer- 

 tainly it must be admitted that she has now distanced her rivals 

 in the matter of Ornithology, though we do not forget that Har- 

 row led the way with the meritorious little essay of the Messrs, 

 Bridgeman, which we- noticed more than three years ago (Ibis 



