Ornithological Literature of 1872. 443 



Dr. Coues can never have seen the true Spheniscus humboldti ; 

 or he would not have united it to S. magellanicus. 



6. Osteological notes on the Spheniscidse. Proc. Bost. Soc. 



N. H. xiv. p. 251. 

 [See Hyatt, Prof. Alpheus.] 



Darwin, F. 



[See Garrod, A. H.] 



David, Le Pere Armand. 



1. Rapport adresse a MM. les Professeurs-Administrateurs 

 du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle. Nouv. Arch, du Mus. 

 d'Hist. Nat. vii. Bull. p. 75. 



An interesting narrative of Pere David's travels and im- 

 portant zoological discoveries in the interior of China. 



2. Observations Zoologiques faites dans la province de Tche- 

 Kiang. C. R. lxxv. (1872) pp. 64-65. 



Contains remarks on an Ibis allied to /. nippon, which he 

 proposes to call Ibis sinensis ; on an Elanus, very shortly de- 

 scribed as E. sinensis ; and on a Falco sacroides, not described 

 at all ! 



3. Note sur une espece nouvelle de Paradoxornis, decouverte 

 en Chine, sur un lac du Kiangsou. C. R. lxxiv. p. 1449, 

 et R. Z. 1872, p. 359. 



Paradoxornis heudei, named after its discoverer Pere 

 Heude, missionary priest at Shanghai. 



4. Quelques Renseignements sur VHistoire Naturelle de la 

 Chine Septentrionale et Occidentale. J. N. China Branch 

 Roy. Asia. Soc. 1871-72, pp. 228-229. 



A letter, dated August 1872, containing an outline of the 

 writer's travels and discoveries in China, and of his principal 

 discoveries in every branch of natural history. 



Degreaux, Laurent. 



La Puissance de I'aile, ou V Oiseau pris au vol, classification 

 alaire, precede d'une preface de Charles Poncy. 1 vol. 

 8vo : Marseille et Paris, 1871. 

 We only know this work from the notice of it, R. Z. 1872, 

 d. 238. 



