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HypotriorcMs severus to H. Subbuteo, Tinnunculus rupicolus (of 

 Africa) to T. AJaudarius, and Athene castanotus (of Ceylon) to A. 

 radiatus. In all these cases the deeper coloured bird is more subtro- 

 pical, less migratory (or even permanently resident), and does not visit 

 temperate latitudes. Schlegel, with much probability, refers F. peri- 

 grinator, Sundevall, to F. macropu,s, Swainson (v. melanogenys, 

 Gould), the Australian Falcon which occurs in the Malayan province. 

 I think I mentioned that I found a fine female Falco Babylonicus in 

 the Worcester Museum ; and this is probably the ' Red-naped Fal- 

 con,' F. peregrinoides apud G. K. Gray, of his Catalogue of the Birds 

 of Nepal. The specimen in Worcester is like an adult female Pere- 

 grine, only much paler, with all the markings considerably less developed ; 

 nape light cinnamon-rufous marked with dusky ; the moustachial 

 streak small ; the upper parts cross-banded as in adult Peregrines : 

 this rare Falcon belonging to the Peregrine subgroup, as distinguished 

 from that of the Sakir, Lanan, and Lugger. About Turnix, I stated 

 (in Ibis, 18G5, p. 33) that Ortygis luzoniensis of Horsfield's list of 

 Javanese birds was the species I now recognise as T. tanki (B. Ham., 

 v. joudcra, Hodgson) ; and such a distribution rather puzzled me, as I 

 knew no instance of T. tanki out of India proper. It is, however, of 

 a nearly allied but smaller species proper to the Malayan province, de- 

 scribed by Wallace from Timor as T. rufescens. Thus are here three 

 allied species, T. macidosus in the Indo-Chinese province with China, 

 T. tanki in the Indian special province, and T. rufescens in the Ma- 

 layan province. The proper name for the Indian Curlew will be 

 JS' n meriins Uneatus, Cuv. : Syn. N. Major, Schlegel. 



L\ G. Elliot of New York was here the other day, and picked up a 

 few new PolypAectrons from Cochin China at Paris. He is about to 

 bring out the Phasianidoe in grand style, from drawings by Wolf, 

 some already made, and which you would most heartily admire. 



Now for some intelligence about what is doing in the Zoological 

 Gardens, Regent's Park. There are two small female African ele- 

 phants now in London, one of which is safe in the Zoological 

 Gardens. Also a pair of the superb Gazella Dama. A fine healthy 

 Buceros Abyssinicus (Abba Gumba of Appendix to Bruce's Travels), 

 the long-legged ground Hornbill, a most curious kind, which stalks 

 about in a style that would puzzle you altogether to make out 



