268 Bibliographical Notices. 



allied to the bird alluded to, but will differ slightly in the markings 

 of the cheeks and throat, and seems to have the lengthened plumes 

 springing from the axillae only, whereas in the other they arise from 

 the whole lower part of the back. If we are right in this bird being 

 distinct, a second species will tend to confirm the separation of the 

 form to a subgenus ; for independent of the remarkable development 

 of the dorsal and axillary plumes, there are other differences which 

 would warrant a removal when a few species exhibited similar cha- 

 racters. It is probable also that Timalia maculata, Temm., pi. 593, 

 where the plumage exhibits an inclination to lengthen and become 

 disunited, would also range with them. — Timalia nigricollis, pi. 594, 

 said to be found in Borneo and not hitherto discovered in Java or 

 Sumatra, we have received from both of the latter islands and also 

 from the Malayan Peninsula. — Eurylavinus psittacinus, pi. 598. The 

 only difference which we can perceive in this figure from that of a 

 beautiful species from continental India, is in the tail being more 

 lengthened and coloured entirely of an ultramarine tint. The bird 

 we allude to is that named E. Dalhousii in the * Edinb. New Phil. 

 Journ.' for 1829, figured by Mr. Royle in his Botany, &c. of the 

 Himalayan Mountains, beautifully represented by Mr. Gould in his 

 ' Icones Avium,' under the subgeneric title of Crossodera, and lastly 

 indicated by Mr. Swainson in his ' Classification of Birds,' as psa^ 

 risomus. At present we consider the two birds identical, and that 

 reference to the descriptions alluded to if they are not so would have 

 tended to illustrate the subject. The specimens which have reached 

 Britain have we believe been all received from continental India, 

 principally from the Himalayan and Nipal districts, while M. Tem- 

 minck's birds have been found in the mountain forests of the inte- 

 rior of Sumatra. " La decouverte en est due a M. Muller." The 

 concluding Livraison contains a copious " Tableau Methodiqjie" and 

 the title pages, besides a few supplementary observations upon some 

 of the descriptions published in the course of the work. 



Flora Lipsiensis Excursoria, Auctore G. L, Petermann. Lipsise, 1838. 



J. A. Barth. 

 This excellent little work has just reached us, and we rejoice -in 

 introducing it to the notice of English botanists. The book contains 

 full generic and specific characters of 1316 flowering plants which 

 grow in the neighbourhood of Leipsic, and these not merely com- 

 piled from other works, as is unfortunately often the case in local 

 Floras, but drawn up with great care from the examination of the 

 plants themselves. The arrangement is Linn»an, with the omission 



