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these oological rarities is a well-known member of this Union. 
These eggs are believed to have been formerly in one of the 
Royal Cabinets at Paris, and were probably originally ob- 
tained in one of the old French colonies in North America. 
Short Notes from New Caledonia.—Glycyphila satelles, 
Tristr. (Ibis, 1879, p. 185), we fear we cannot admit as a 
valid species. Individuals of G. chlorophea found here and 
in Lifu vary in size and coloration so very much, according 
to season and sex, that we cannot, satisfactorily to ourselves, 
identify more than one species, and we believe that the various 
names caledonica, modesta, and poliotis of G. R. Gray, in- 
cana, Latham, and chlorophea, Forster, have been bestowed 
on individuals of one and the same species ; to these must 
now be added G. satelles of Tristram ! 
Cuculus bronzinus, G. R. Gray, differs from C. simus, Peale, 
from Fiji, in being of a much richer chestnut below, the colour 
extending up to the bill, whereas in C. simus the upper part 
of the throat and chin are grey. Then the tail in the adult 
is much less barred, the central feathers showing hardly any 
trace of bar at all ; whereas in C. simus the bars extend right 
across the feathers, and in the central pair the edges show 
white patches, the bars being elsewhere obsolete. I observe, 
too, a different gloss on the plumage, C. bronzinus bemg 
more inclined to green. The young are also less barred 
throughout. 
C. infuscatus, Hartlaub, has been supposed by some to be 
a phase of plumage of C. simus. Nothing like it has ever 
been found in New Caledonia.—HE. L. Layarp. 
New Birds from Eastern Africa.—Capt. Shelley has just 
received through Dr. Kirk a valuable collection of birds from 
Ugogo, amongst which are examples of seven or eight new 
species, some of great interest. An account of these will be 
given in our next Number. 
