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TURTUROENA delegorguei and sharpei, OXYPELIA cyanopis, 

 CHAMAEPELIA buckleyi, Phlegoenas beccarii, gra?tti, al- 

 bicollis, and erythroptera, LEPTOTILA 7negalura, OSCULATIA 

 purpurea, and OTIDIPHAPS insularis. 



Seven new generic names are proposed. They are : — 

 NESOEXAS, Type N. mayeri, OXYPELIA, Type O. cyanopis, 

 Calopelia, Type C. puella, HlSTRlOPHAPS, Type H. histrio- 

 nica, ZOXOPHAPS, Type Carp, forsteri CRYTOPHAPS, Type 

 Carp, poecilorhoa, HOMOPELIA, Type Turtur picturatus. 



Osmotreron wallacei, from Celebes, Phabotreron occipit- 

 alis from Basilan. Ptilopus smithsojiianus from Paumotu, 

 Columba crissalis from Central America, Turturaena sharpei 

 from Central Africa, Macroypgia goldiei, from New Guinea, 

 Zenaida yucatanensis, from Yucatan, Turtur shelleyi from 

 Upper White Nile, Geotrygon venezuelensis from Merida, 

 Venezuela, Phlogaenas granti from Guadalcanar, and 

 Phlogaenas albicollis from Bow Island, are described as new, 

 or have new names assigned to them. 



This volume is as excellent as the preceding ones, and 

 the descriptions are very good. 



1893. — Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum, 

 Vol. XXII., the Game Birds (Orders Pterocletes, 

 Gallixae, Opisthocomi, and HemipodI, by W. R. Ogilvie 

 Grant. 



This Volume contains 562 pages of text, and eight 

 beautifully coloured plates. The species figured are : — 

 FRAXCOLIXUS, streptophorus, albogularis, spilolaemus, 

 uluensis, elgonensis, shelleyi, and adspersus, Pterntstes, 

 leucoscepus and infuscatus. 



Two new sub-orders are proposed for Gallinae as fol- 

 lows : — Alectoropodes for Tetraoxidae, and Phasiaxidae, 

 and Peristeropodes, for MEGAPODIDAE, and Cracidae, and 

 the new Order, Hemipodi, for Turxicidae. 



The following generic names are proposed as new : — 

 DACTYLORTYX, Type Ortyx thoracieus, RHYXCHORTYX, 

 Type Odontophorus spodiostethus, and Eulipoa, Tvpe 

 Megapodius wallacei : — Francolinus streptophorus, from 

 Central Africa ; uluensis, from East Africa ; shelleyi, from 

 South Africa; elgonensis, from Mount Elgon ; griseostriatus, 

 from West Africa; gedgii, from Central East Africa; sharpii, 

 from Abyssinia ; jacksoni, from South Africa ; Arboricola 



