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five species — one, P. xanthopygius from Borneo, being described 

 and figured as new. 



5. Portuguese. 



From Portugal we have received some numbers of the newly- 

 established 'Jornal de Sciencias Mathematicas Physicas e Na- 

 turaes,' published under the auspices of the Royal Academy 

 of Sciences of Lisbon. To these Professor Barboza du Bocage 

 contributes three ornithological papers. The first, entitled " A 

 ornithologia dos Azores," is a review of M. Morelet's and Mr. 

 Frederick Godman's works on that subject, the last of which, as 

 our readers will recollect, appeared in these pages (Ibis, 1866, 

 pp. 88-109). The author accuses our contributor of having 

 made several serious errors in transcribing the vernacular names 

 of the different species he mentions. That such is the case we 

 do not doubt. Few Englislimen, except port- wine merchants, 

 are acquainted (more's the pity) with the language of Camoens ; 

 and surely such mistakes as Mr. Godman has made are very 

 venial ! He never boasted any knowledge of the Azorean 

 tongue ; and we should like to know how accurately Professor du 

 Bocage could write down the local names of birds dictated to 

 him by a Scillonian, a Manxman, or a Shetlander ! The Pro- 

 fessor is apparently much puzzled to account for the fact that 

 two species of birds are said to be peculiar to the Azores, when 

 all the rest are identical with European, Madeiran, or Canarian 

 species, and so much puzzled at it that he doubts whether the 

 fact can be as it is asserted. He suggests that Fringilla more- 

 leti is identical with F. tintillon. On this point we have no re- 

 mark to make, for we never had an opportunity of comparing 

 the two ; but we suppose Dr. Pucheran had when he described 

 the former as distinct from the latter. Professor du Bocage 

 allows that if the male of Pyrrhula murina really resembles the 

 female, then it must be distinct from P. coccinea. He will, we 

 hope, permit us to assure him that there is no possibility of 

 Mr. Godman having made a mistake in this matter, and that P. 

 murina is an excellent species, while we have some doubts 

 whether P. coccinea can really be distinguished from the com- 

 mon form of European Bullfinch, of which it seems to be only a 



