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twice " (three times, surely ?) " suffered shipwreck." This resus- 

 citated magazine appeared on the 1st of May last year, and is 

 published fortnightly. Who may be its editor we have no idea ; 

 but we congratulate him heartily on having some correspondents 

 of the right sort, men who, when in foreign parts, contrive to 

 keep their eyes open as much as if they had been regularly 

 hatched " Ibises " ; and we are sure we can pay them no higher 

 compliment. Among these we may mention Mr. G. F. Mathews, 

 who furnishes some very interesting notes on Cijanopica cooki 

 and other birds as observed near Lisbon. It is true that they 

 do not contain matter of very striking novelty, but almost any- 

 thing respecting the ornithology of a country hitherto so over- 

 looked as Portugal is useful in the way of information. For 

 ourselves, we were not at all prepared to learn that the European 

 Blue Magpie was abundant on the banks of the mouth of the 

 Tagus. This gentleman also found a Blue-throated Warbler 

 [Cyanecula suecica) to be " tolerably common " in several localities 

 in that district. We only wish he had told us which of the 

 forms — true suecica, leucocyanea, or wolfi — it was that he observed 

 there. We have great pleasure in wishing success to the ' Natur- 

 alist^ and its promoters. 



3. French. 

 In the Ninth Volume of the ' Memoires de la Societe Impe- 

 riale des Sciences Naturelles de Cherbourg^ for 1863, are con- 

 tained some ornithological papers by M. le Capitaine de Fregate 

 Henri Jouan, which are worthy of notice. The most important 

 is entitled " Notes sur la Faune Ornithologique de la Nouvelle 

 Caledonie " (pp. 197-248) from observations made by the author 

 between 1860 and 1862. Sixty -five species are included, of 

 which M, Jouan considers that four may be doubtful ; but of the 

 remainder it seems to us that ten, if not more, are substantial 

 additions to the avifauna of New Caledonia, as given by MM. J. 

 Verreaux and Des Murs in the ' Revue de Zoologie ' for 1860 

 (c/. Ibis, 1861, pp. 106, 107). It is much to be regretted that 

 our gallant author has not placed himself en rapport with those 

 distinguished naturalists, by which means all uncertainty would 

 have been avoided. The ten species we have above mentioned 

 are the following : — 



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