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finest collections of Indian birds. At the same time, he has collected 

 a very large aniomit of new information regarding many birds which 

 previously were hardly or only little known, and such additional 

 observations on some species, formerly recorded by Mr. W. T. 

 B 1 a 11 f o r d, he offers in the present paper which will be, it is 

 hoped, soon published in the Society's Journal. 



III. — Note on a few species of Andamanese landshells, lately 



DESCRIBED IN AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CoNCHOLOGY, by Dr. F. 



Stoliczka. 



The last number of the above Journal, Part 2, vol. v., (p. 109, 

 pi. 10) brought us a welcome addition to Indian Conchology in the 

 way of illustrations of well known species, described under new 

 names. The paper to which I allude is entitled " Descriptions of 

 new species of terrestrial Mollusca from the Andaman islands, Indian 

 Archipelago, by Geo. W. T r y o n, Jr." 



It is not my object to point out the very vague knowledge the 

 author of the above paper appears to possess of the history and 

 geography of our Andaman settlement. It would perhaps be un- 

 fair to expect from the author, that he should know that this settle- 

 ment has now a population of about 8000 or more foreign inhabitants 

 (European and native), and that it has been the largest Indian con- 

 vict settlement for upwards of 12 years. It is also probably not to 

 be expected that the author should be acquainted with the numerous 

 publications in our Journal regarding the fauna of those islands 

 by Mr. E. Blyth, by Col. Tytler and Lieut. Be avail in 

 the " Ibis," with various papers on the physical geography and 

 the population of those islands, (also in our Journal), with Dr, 

 Mouat's "Adventures and researches among the Andaman 

 islanders, London, 1863," together with an appendix on the fauna 

 by Mr. Blyth, and perhaps not even with the couple of scanty 

 notices in our Journal by Mr. Theobald regarding the shells 

 of those islands, — but how Mr. Try on could have overlooked 

 a well known species described by Chemnitz about 90 years 

 ago, and figured in Be eve's Monograph, and moreover the 

 numerous papers of Mr. Benson about Andamanese land- 

 shells in the Annals and Mag. Nat. Hist., between the years 







