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LITERATURE. 



Gould, John. Description of three new and very beautiful Species of Birds from 

 Guatemala and from the Island of Lombock. (P. Z. S. 1857, p. 65.) 

 Contains a description of Halcyon fulgidus from Lombock ; type of the genus Caridoncur 

 of Cabanis and Heine (Mus. Hein. Th. ii. p. 162, 1860). 



Verreaux, J. Description d'Oiseaux nouveaux. (Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1858, p. 305.) 

 Cyanalcyon leucopygius is a new species from the Solomon Islands. 



Gray, G. R. List of the Birds, with Descriptions of new Species, obtained by Mr. Alfred 

 R. Wallace in the Aru and Ke Islands. (P. Z. S. 1858, p. 169.) 

 Dacelo tyro is a new species. It is figured (pi. cxxxiii.) from Aru. 



Halcyon sordida is a variety of the true H. sordida (afterwards named Sauropatis grayi by 

 Cabanis and Heine). 



Tanysiptera hydrocharis is a new species. 



Cassin, John. U. S. Exploring Expedition — Mammalogy and Ornithology. Royal 4to. 

 Philadelphia, 1858. 



After giving the species obtained by the Expedition, the author produces an admirable 

 essay on the genus Todiramphus (auct. nec Less.), which clears up a great deal of confusion, 

 but, from insufficient material at the author's command, is defective in some few points. 



Gray, G. R. Catalogue of the Birds of the Tropical Islands of the Pacific Ocean in the 

 Collection of the British Museum. 8vo. 1859. 

 Halcyon (Actenoides) jacquinoti is supposed to be a new species, founded on a bird men- 

 tioned by Hombron and Jacquinot (Ann. Sci. Nat. n. s. xvi. p. 315). 



. List of Birds lately sent by Mr. A. R. Wallace from Dorey, or Dorcry, New Guinea. 



(P. Z. S. 1859, p. 153.) 

 Tanysiptera galatea is a new species. 



Heine, F. Ueber einige neue oder weniger bekannter Vogel des '"Museum Heineanum." 

 (Journ. f. Orn. 1859, p. 406.) 

 Tanysiptera margaretlm is a new species. 



Uralcyon is a new genus. The type is Tanysiptera sylvia, Gould. 



Gould, J. Birds of Asia, part xii. Folio. June 1st, 1860. 



Dacelo tyro, Halcyon atricapillus, II. fulgidus, and II. omnicolor are figured. 



Cabanis, Dr. J., and Heine, F. Museum Heineanum, Theil ii. 8vo. 1860 (p. 143). 



Containing a list, with full synonymy, of the various species contained in Heine's Museum. 

 Notes on allied species are added ; and altogether this work is one of the most valuable and 

 careful expositions of the family Alcedinidee ever published. 



