242 Bibliographical Notice. 



tail-coverts, and a broad band 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, with narrow fulvous edgings ; those on the 

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

 yellowish-rufous edgings. Rectrices above also dark brown, 

 the outer webs washed with tawny rufous ; tips pale fulvous. 

 Rectrices 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 

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

 ample the rectrices above want the pale terminal fringe. 



Obtained at Debrooghur. 



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

 resembles Graminicola beiigalensis, Jerd. Dr. Jerdon in- 

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

 long grass. 



BIBLIOGllAPHICAL NOTICE. 



Natural History of the Azores, or Western Islands. By F. Du Cane 

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



The last thirty or forty years have much advanced our knowledge 

 of the physical conditions and productions of those interesting 

 archipelagos or groups of islands which, 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 valuable addition to our acquaintance with the 

 most northerly and hitherto least thoroughly exj^lored of these four 

 groups. 



Mr Godman's personal narrative and observations occupy the 

 smaller 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 eonspectus of the present state of our 

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

 the way, must we ask, does Mr. Godman retain the English l)ar- 

 barian and entirely unwnrranta'Dle spelling of the word (arising 

 either from a mistake of the ^ 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 

 accoiint of the few Mammals, liiids, Reptiles, Batrachians, and 

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

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



