AVES — ZYGODACTYLl. 
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Rhamphastid^. — The third number of Gould’s Mono- 
graph of the Rhamphastidce, translated by J . H. Chr. Fr. 
and J. W. Sturm, has appeared. 
This third number has not yet been sent to our State Library, and 
therefore is not accessible to me at present. * 
Gould, in the Ann. ix. p. 238, has given the name of Pteroglosstis 
(Aulacorhynchus) castaneorhynchus to a new species from the Cordil- 
leras, standing next the Ft. hcematopygus, but ditfering from it and all 
other species by its much larger size (18"). 
Picina:. — Rtippell, in the Mus. Senckenb. iii. p. 119, has 
increased this family with two species. 
1. Ficus (Dendobratus ?) schoensis, very like the F. biarmicus, but 
larger, the two white streaks on the sides of the head not uniting, &c. ; 
from Schoa. 2. Yunx (jcguatorialis, from the Southern Provinces of 
Abyssinia. Hitherto there were only two species known in the Old 
World, viz., Y. torquilla of Europe and North Africa, and Y. pectoralis 
of South Africa. This new third species corresponds in size with the 
Northern ; and is near the South African by the rusty red of the under 
side of the body, which, however, is differently disposed or divided. 
Riippell has appended to these two species the description of a female 
Ficus poecephalus, Swains. 
On a review of the Speckled Woodpeckers (Isis, p. 649), Brehm 
believes he has found out, that the smaller species of Ficus may be 
separated into a particular genus, which should be called Piculus. Their 
chief mark is the tail, which is not so wedge-shaped as in the other 
Woodpeckers, but is much blunter. They are also particularly distin- 
guished by a black and white banded back, and the females have pro- 
bably no red, but only black upon the top of the head : this, at least, is 
the case in the Ficus minor, Macei, moluccensis, and concretus. This 
separation may be very good, but the name Ficulus has already been 
used by Is. Geoffrey as identical with Ficumnus. Brehm has announced 
a sub-species of the Ficus, in the meanwhile, as P. roseiventris. 
Hartlaub has remarked, that Ficus luridus, Nitzsch, is synonymous 
with P. tukki, Less., and F[emicercus bruneus, Eyt. (Rev. Zool. p. 57.) 
PsittaciNtE. — Chr. L. Brehm, Monographie der Papageien. 
Fol. das Heft Mit. 10 ill. Abbild. 
After the copx^er-plates of Parrots by Le Vaillant and Bourjot St. 
* In the fifth number of the Archives of last year, I have given a notice of 
this number, and di’awn attention to its increasing value in original obser- 
vations, additions, and improvements. — Editor of Arch. 
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