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Turdua iiiacus. 



torquatua alpestria. 



Monticola saxatilis. 



cyanua. 



Regulus cristatus. 

 Coaaypha gutturalis. 

 Cinclus aquaticua. 

 Ampelis garrulus. 

 Sitta csesia. 



krueperi. 



syriaca. 



Muscicapa grisola. 



atricapilla. 



albicollia. 



Muscicapa parva. 

 Loxia curviroatra. 

 Carpodacua erythrinua. 

 Metoponia pusilla. 

 Coccothraustea vulgaris. 

 Fregilus graculua. 

 Alauda arborea. 

 Otocorys pencillata. 

 Cypaelus melba. 

 Picua martiua. 

 Gecinua canus. 

 Ooccyatea glandarim. 

 Tetraogallua caspius. 



Coming home by the Orient Express, Dr. Sclater had 

 stopped at Buda-Pesth and Vienna and had been most hos- 

 pitably received by the naturalists in both those cities. 



At Buda-Pesth he had found the large collection of some 

 40,000 bird-skins in the National Hungarian Museum, under 

 the care of Dr. Julius v. Madarasz, in excellent order. The 

 series of Palsearctic species was particularly rich, and there 

 were likewise many rarities from New Guinea, collected by 

 Fennicbel and Biro. He had likewise admired the mounted 

 series illustrative of the Hungarian Ornis. In Vienna he 

 had examined the well-known collection, under the care 

 of Dr. Steindachner and Dr. v. Lorenz-Liburnau, in the 

 Imperial Museum of Natural History. 



The Hon. Walter Rothschild exhibited a number of 

 Central Asiatic Pheasants and described two new species, 

 remarking as follows : — 



"Mr. Ogilvie Grant in the twenty-second volume of the 

 1 Catalogue of Birds ' (p. 332) places, as a synonym of Phasi- 

 anus torquatus, Phasianus colchicus var. monyolicus, Pallas, 

 while (p. 328) he allows the name Phasianus mongolicus to 

 stand for the Pheasant described by Brandt iu the ' Bulletin ' 

 of the St. Petersburg Academy, vol. iii. p. 51 (1844). It is, 

 however, an invariable rule in Zoology that no name can be 

 used twice in the same genus, and as Pallas's name dates 

 from 1811, it undoubtedly has the priority. Therefore 



