482 Recent Ornithological Publications. 



it with the rest of his collection to M. Alphonse Milne-Edwards* ; 

 and in a letter which we have lately received from that gentleman 

 he kindly informs us that he has no doubt as to the specimen 

 in question and also a leg-b(me belonging to the bird now named 

 by Herr von Frauenfeld as above, but which in M. Milne- 

 Edwards's opinion will have to bear the appellation of Apha- 

 napteryx broeckii (Schleg.), as being the same species as that on 

 which Prof, Schlegel (Versl. en Meded. K. Akad. Amsterd. ii. 

 1854j p. 356) founded his Didus broeckii:, and we believe it will 

 not be long before the determination of it as an aberrant form 

 of Rallida is published. It can hardly fail to be gratifying to 

 Herr von Frauenfeld to find his acute suggestion thus confirmed ; 

 and in concluding our imperfect notice of this most interesting 

 woi'k we must not omit to say that to it is appended a very full 

 list of papers connected with Dodo-literature which have ap- 

 peared since that given by Strickland. 



4. Italian. 



Dr. Salvadori has most kindly forwarded us a copy of a paper 

 communicated by him a few months since to the Koyal Academy 

 of Sciences of Turin, wherein are described eight, or perhaps 

 nine, new species of birds collected by the Marchese Giacomo 

 Doria and Signor Beccari in Borneo. These are Picus {Baopipo) 

 aurantiiventris, Hemicercus brookianus, Pitta berta, Brachypteryx 

 macroptera (which, says the author, may be Turdirostris umbratilis, 

 Bp.), Alcippe cinereocapiUa, A. pectoralis, Calamodyta dori(3e, 

 Volvocivora borneensis and Cyornis beccariana. These are all 

 diagnosed from their nearest allies, apparently with great care. 

 Borneo is a large island, and we should like to know from what 

 part of it the new birds were obtained ; but nothing is said as to 

 their precise localities. 



* From this collection M. Alphonse Milne-Edwards has already de- 

 scribed two extinct and previously unrecognized species — one, Psittacus 

 rodericanus, from the caves of Rodriguez (Comptes Rendus, Ixv. pp. 1121- 

 1125, and Ann. Sc. Nat. 5<= ser. viii. pp. 144-156, pis. 7, 8), and the other 

 a large Coot, from Mauritius, which he has called Fulica newtoni (op. 

 proximo cit. pp. 194-220, pis. 10-13). Other discoveries are expected to 

 follow . 



