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very large race, though we have been informed that the call- 

 notes of the two are unlike each other. 



In the second and third papers, Professor du Bocage gives us 

 some very welcome information as to the ornithology of the 

 Portuguese possessions in Africa; and the lists appear to be very 

 carefully drawn up. Some eleven species are described as new ; 

 but, on re-investigation, a few of them are referred to previously 

 known forms. A very fine new form seems to be Pternistes 

 sclateri, of which a figure is given ; and there are others not less 

 interesting. Wc trust we may receive many more instructive 

 papers of this kind from the author, and are extremely glad to find 

 there is much ornithological activity going on in Portugal and 

 her colonies, under the management of Professor du Bocage. 



6. American. 



Since we last noticed Mr. Elliot's ' Birds of North America^* 

 (Ibis, 1867, p. 376) five more parts of it have reached us, each 

 of which contains five plates; but on several more than one 

 species is depicted. The list of them is as follows : — 



Part V. (1867) : — Lampronetta fischeri, Lophophanes inor- 

 natus, Macrorhamphus scolopaceus, Nephocates niger, and Di- 

 omedea chlororlnjnchus. 



Part VI. : — Haliaetus pelagicus, Zonotrichia belli, Br achy - 

 rhamphus temmincki, Colaptes chrysoides, and Phaleris pusilla. 



Part VII. : — Graculus bairdi, Scardafella inca, Ereunetes occi- 

 dentalism Contopus pertinax, Larus occidentalis, and L. cali- 

 fornicus. 



Part VIII. : — Buteo zonocercus, Vireo plumbeus, V. vicinior, 

 V. swainsoni, V. jmsillus, Br achy rhamphus hypoleucus, Den- 

 drceca gratice, Cymochorea melania, and Halocyptena microsoma. 



Part IX. (1868) : — Exanthemops rossi, Parus montanus, 

 Nectris fuliginosus, Xenopicus albolarvatus, Mitrephorus fulvi- 

 frons, and Nectris amaurosoma. 



Under the new name Exanthemops rossi we have an old friend 

 better known as the " Horned Wavey " or Little Snow-Goose of 



• The Birds of North America. By D. G. Elliot, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. 

 Parts V.-IX. New York : published by the author, No. 27 West Thirty- 

 third Street, 1867 & 1868. Imp. folio. 



