AVES GALLINACE^, 
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columbine:, 
Geophaps Smithii, Jard., plumifera, G., and scripta, Ptilinopjus Swain- 
sonii, G., and Ewingii, G., have been represented by Gould ui the 7th 
part of his Birds of Australia. Both species of Ptilinopus have been 
hitherto united under the name of Colwmba pivrpivrata, and they agree 
in the distribution of colour ; but the Pt. Ewingii is smaller, the top of 
the head rose-red instead of crimson, the breast pale greenish-grey, 
instead of muddy green, the middle of abdomen bright orange, instead 
of lilac ; and the tail-feathers greenish-yellow instead of being tipped 
with rich yellow. 
GALLINACE.^. 
Gallina:. — Buhle’s Natiirgescli. der domesticirten Thiere, 
Heft. 3. (Pfau, Trutlmhn und Perllmhn nebst ihren Verwand- 
ten.) Halle, 1842. 
This book has not yet reached me. 
Delessert, in his Souv. p. 26, tab. 10, and Hartlaub, in the Rev. ZooL 
p. 58, have remarked, that Francolinus nivosus, Del., is identical with 
Fr. HardwicTcii, Gray. Lesson’s Ortyx leucopogon, is from San-Carlos 
in Central America. (Rev. Zool. p. 175.) 
The riddle in Temminck’s announcement (Man. d’Ornitholog. iv. 
p, 313), which he put down as very doubtful, that the Turkey {MeUagri& 
gallopavo), was found wild in Dalmatia, has been satisfactorily solved, 
as Ktister mentions (Isis, p. 611), that Otis tarda is known, throughout 
Dalmatia, by the name of “ Wild Turkey.” By a similar misunder- 
standing, Hellenius once took a female of the Mujion, which is commonly 
called a Roe in Sardinia, for Gervus capreolus ; and thence Rudolphi, 
from its fruitful pairing with the Ram, drew the conclusion, that the 
latter fact could not be brought into consideration for the determining 
of a species. (Vid. Miinch. gel. Anzeig. iv. p. 936.) 
Penelope alhiventer, from the province of Nicaragua, has been de- 
scribed by Lesson as a new species, (Rev. Zool. p. 174.) 
The presence of the genus Megapodius in New Holland, 
has now been proved, by the M. tumulus being found on 
Coburgh Peninsula, on the north coast. (Gould’s Birds of 
Australia, part 6.) 
The most remarkable thing in these birds, is, their peculiar way of 
hatching their eggs. These are found in large sand heaps, which are 
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