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coarsely drawn, are not without merit) of nestling-birds, to illus- 

 trate the branch of our science to which he is devoting himself, 

 as formerly noticed in this Journal (Ibis, 1863, p. 355), and also 

 continues (pp. 3, 33, and 378) his catalogue of the birds observed 

 in the Department of Eure-et-Loir. M. Coinde has a note 

 (p. 5) on insectivorous birds, showing that many of the Scolopa- 

 cidce are great benefactors to mankind. M. Fatio (p. 65) makes 

 some observations on the reproductive organs of Accentor alpinus. 

 The same gentleman has also an article (p. 122) on the appear- 

 ance of Sp'rhaptes paradoxus in Europe; in the course of which 

 he states that two specimens were killed near Geneva towards 

 the end of August 1863 ; while to this the Editor appends a 

 notice, by M. Ernest de Saulcj^, of two more examples, "d'une 

 beaute remarquable," killed at Hauconcourt, near Metz, on the 

 9th of February, 1864 — being the latest date of the occurrence 

 of this persecuted species that we are aware of. There is also a 

 translation (p. 97), by M. Alphonse Gaillard, of a portion of 

 Conservator Meves's " Contribution to the Ornithology of Jemt- 

 land," mentioned in the 'Ibis^ for 1862 (p. 182), containing the 

 descriptions of some five-and- twenty young birds, which will be 

 highly useful to those who cannot read them in the original. 

 M. Althammer records some facts (p. 366) i-elating to a pair of 

 Melopsittacus undulatus, which escaped from confinement in the 

 Tyrol, in April 1862, and which seem not only to have passed the 

 two following winters among the mountains, but also to have bred 

 there. The Baron H. Aucapitaine gives an account (p. 409), 

 apparently on unquestionable authority, of an aged Macaw, 

 " Aracanga" — qusere Ara macao (Linn.) ? — which was brought 

 from Spanish America in the year 1799 or 1800, and, though 

 quite blind, was still living on the 5th of October last in Corsica, 

 with Madame Grassi, its owner. The longevity of the Psittacidce 

 in confinement is pretty well known ; but many of our readers 

 may not be aware that the " oldest inhabitant " of the Regent's 

 Park Gardens is an example of Coracopsis vasa, which was pre- 

 sented to the Zoological Society on the 12th June, 1827, and 

 formed the subject of an article by Mr. Vigors in the ' Zoological 

 Journal ' for the same year (vol. iii. p. 2 10) ! 



