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Schlegel, H. Notice sur le sous-genre Tanysiptera. (L. c. p. 269.) 



A most elaborate and exhaustive article, based upon the material in the Leyden Museum. 

 The object is to show that there are only three or four species, and not so many as are 

 admitted by Mr. Wallace and myself. 



Verreaux, J. Description de quelques oiseaux nouveaux appartenant a la collection 

 zoologique du Museum. (Nouv. Arch, du Mus. ii. Bull. p. 21, 1866.) 

 Tanysiptera riedeli is a new species. 



Diggles, S. Ornithology of Australia. Small folio. Queensland, 1867-69. 

 Part 1. Dacelo gigantea is figured. 



Part 2. Halcyon sanctus and H. macleayi are figured ; but the figure of the former bird is 

 taken from a young H. macleayi. 

 Part 12. Dacelo leachii is figured. 

 Part 15. Tanysiptera sylvia, ad. et juv., is figured. 



Finsch, O., and Hartlaub. G. Beitrag zur Fauna Centralpolynesiens ; Ornithologie der 

 Viti-, Samoa- und Tonga-Inseln. 8vo. Halle, 1867. 

 The Kingfishers are here most elaborately treated, the synonymy being carefully worked 

 out. 



Halcyon peald (p. 39) and H. cassini (p. 40) are described as new ; but I believe them to 

 be only stages of H sacra. 



Layard. Birds of South Africa. 8vo. Cape Town, 1867. 



A list of South-African Kingfishers is given (cf. Sharpe, Ibis, 1869, p. 275). 



Bocage, J. V. Barboza du. Aves das possessoes portuguezas da Africa occidental que 

 existem no Museu de Lisboa. (Jorn. Acad. R. das Sciencias de Lisboa, 1867, i. 

 p. 129.) 



A list of the species in the Lisbon Museum is given. 



Sharpe, R. B. On two new or little-known Kingfishers belonging to the Genera Ceyx or 

 Cittura. (P. Z. S. 1868, p. 270.) 

 Ceyx wallacei is a new species from the Sula Islands. 

 Cittura sanghirensis is a new species from Sanghir. 



Gould, John. Description of a new Species of the Genus Ceyx. (P. Z. S. 1868, p. 404.) 

 Ceyx pkilippinensis is a new species from Manila. 



Sharpe, R. B. On the Genus Ceyx. (P. Z. S. 1868, p. 587.) 

 A list of the species known up to date is given. 

 Ceyx dillwynii is a new species from Labium. 



Peters, W. Vorlaufige Mittheilung iiber einige neue Vogclartcn aus Mossambique. (Journ. 

 f. Orn. 1868, p. 131.) 

 //. orientalis is a new species from Inhambane. 



