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also draws attention to tlie fact that AI?iscicapa sibirica 

 fulig'mosa (Hodgson) must be known as M. s..cacal>utu noni. 

 nov.; Muscicapa ferrwjinea (Hodgs.) as M. cinereiceps 

 (Sharpe) ; and Eophona melanura melanura as K. mu/ratoria 

 pulla nom. nov. 



In tlie second paper Messrs. Bangs and Penard discuss the 

 name of the Common Jungle-fowl, and following the views 

 of Ogilvie-Grant and Kloss, and in opposition to those of 

 Hartert, Blanford, and Baker, they accept the specific name 

 gallus and designate Bengal as the tj^pe-localit}'. 



Two new subspecies, Chloronerpes rubiginusus roraimce and 

 Tanayra violacea rodwayi. are described from T\It. Roraima 

 and British Guiana in the third note. 



Mr. Beebe's 'Tropical Wild Life^ was noticed in 'The 

 Ibis/ 1918j J). J 87, and in the fourth paper of the list 

 Mr. Penard points out that some of Mr. Beebe's discoveries 

 have been anticipated by previous naturalists and explorers, 

 and that the curious difl'erences in the habits and structure 

 of the tarsi of the larger and smaller Tinamous were noticed 

 by Charles Waterton nearly a hundred years ago. 



In his revision of the genus Buthraupis Mr. Penard 

 divides tliis composite group into three genera, proposing 

 Cnemathraupis, type G. eximia (Boisson.), and Bangsia, type 

 JB. urcm cceruleigularis fCherrie), as new, and retaining 

 Buthraupis Cab. for B. montnna (d'Orb. & Lafres.) and the 

 species allied to it. Full generic diagnoses are given. 



In the last note the name of the Indian Black Cuckoo is 

 shown to be Eudynainys scolopacea (Linn.) instead of 

 E. one.ntalis. 



Rowan and others on the eggs of the Common Tern. 



[On the nest and eggs of the Common Tern [S. flnviatilis). A co- 

 operative study. W. Rowan, E. Wolff, and the late P. L. Sulman, 

 field-workers ; Karl Pearson, reporter, etc. Bionietrika, Cambridge, 

 xii. 1919, pp. 308-354, 5 pis.] 



This is an elaborate metrical study on 1110 eggs of the 

 Common Tern collected in July 1914. Comparisons with 

 the results obtained in the previous year and published 

 in the lOtli volume of the same journal are given. 



