242 BihUographical Notice. 



tail-coverts, and a broad baud extending from the sides of the 

 neck across the nape bright rufous. Feathers of the head 

 pale fulvous at base, changing to rufous at the extremity ; 

 many with broad black centres. Dorsal feathers and wing- 

 coverts black, w4th narrow fulvous edgings ; those on the 

 rump edged and tipped with nifous. Quills dark brown, with 

 yellowish-nifous edgings. Rectrices above also dark brown, 

 the outer webs washed with ta^vny rufous ; tips pale fulvous. 

 Eectrices underneath ashy brown ; a bold black bar or spot 

 near the end of each feather, which is terminated with pale 

 fulvous. Lores, chin, cheeks, throat, and remaining under 

 surface fulvous white, more or less tinged on the breast with 

 pale rufous. Upper mandible dark brown ; under mandible 

 yellowish at base. Legs reddish yellow. Bill from forehead 

 f of an inch, tarsus |, tail 2|-, wing 1\^. In another ex- 

 ample the rectrices above want the pale terminal fringe. 



(Obtained at Debrooghm*. 



This very distinct species, in its style of coloration, greatly 

 resembles GraminicoJa hengalensis, Jerd. Dr. Jerdon in- 

 forms me that it occurs all through Assam, but only in dense 

 long grass. 



BIBLIOGEAPHICAL NOTICE. 



Natural History of the Azores, or Western Islands. By F. Dtr Cai^e 

 GoDMAX, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. 8vo. London: Van Voorst, 1870. 



The last thirtj' or forty years have much advanced onr knowledge 

 of the physical conditions and productions of those interesting 

 archipelagos or groups of islands wliich, from about the latitude of 

 Lisbon to a few degrees within the northern tropic, stud the eastern 

 confines of the great Atlantic. We have in the work before us a 

 very useful and vahiable addition to our acquaintance -svith the 

 most northerly and hitherto least thoroughly explored of these four 

 groups. 



^Nlr Godman's personal narrative and observations occupy the 

 siiiiillor portion of the volume. But it brings together various con- 

 tributions by other able writers on the collections made by him, so 

 as to present a complete conspectus of the present state of our 

 acquaintance with the Zoology and Botany of the Agores. Why, by 

 the way, must we ask, does !^^r. Godman retain the Fnglish bar- 

 barian and entirely unwarrantable spelling of the word (arising 

 either from a mistake of the c; for the letter z, or from a bad 

 representation in English of the Portuguese pronunciation) ? 



The author's own short narrative of his four months' visit, and 

 account of the few ]yrammals, ])irds, lleptiles, Batrachians, and 

 Freshwater Fishes Idtherto observed in the islands, is followed by a 

 long and careful enumeration of the Insects (mainly Coleoptera), 



