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the beginning of Scolopaces. Among the first-named he in- 

 cludes Dramas ardeola, following Mr. Blyth^s opinion (Conti-ib. 

 Ornith. 1852, p. 27, and Journ. As. Soe. Bengal, 1852, p. 12) ; 

 we are glad to say, however, that he allows this strange form a 

 genus to itself, though on a prior occasion he refused the like 

 privilege to his " Astur secretarius," a bird differing from all 

 Gos-Hawks quite as much as Dromas does from the Terns. 

 Under the head Cuculi are contained the genera Musophaga, 

 Coitus, and Opisthocomus. According to Professor SchlegeFs 

 enumeration, we find that the Leyden Museum contains 1133 

 mounted specimens of 259 species of Psittaci, or more than two- 

 thirds, we believe, of the whole number of the described species 

 of this family, which Mr. G. R. Gray^s Catalogue of 1859 put 

 at 381, 280 being then represented by specimens in the British 

 Museum. 



4. Danish. 

 Professor Reinhardt's paper on the occurrence of Syrrhaptes 

 paradoxus in Denmark during 1863, mentioned in the article 

 on the same subject which appeared in the former series of this 

 Magazine (Ibis, 1864, p. 185), has been published in the 

 ' Scientific Communications of the Natural History Union at 

 Copenhagen^*. More cautious than some other ornithologists 

 we know of, the Professor indulges in no speculations on the 

 causes which brought about the singular visitation, but simply 

 records the facts which came to his knowledge from trustworthy 

 sources. Those of our friends who were at one time inclined to 

 be sceptical as to the asserted breeding of this species in Europe, 

 we hope, have had their doubts quieted long since. If not, we 

 must refer them to Professor Reinhardt's own words ; for there 

 seems no need to repeat here the details which, thanks to that 

 naturalist, were published in the ' Ibis ' for the past year. 



In the revived series of Kroyer's 'Natural History Journal,' our 

 friend Herr Fischer, of Copenhagen, records the occurrence of 

 that extremely rare bird, the Cuneate-tailed Gull, in the Fceroesf. 



* Om den kirgisiske Steppehones Forekomst her i Landet i imlevgerende 

 Aar. Af J. Reinhardt. Videnskabelige Meddelelsev for 1863, pp. 213-235. 



t Larus Rossii paa Fttrceerne. Ved J.C. H. Fischer. Naturhistorisk 

 Tidsskriftj 3rd series, vol. iii. 1864. 



