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Alectorides. — Gould has now given a drawing of the Otis 
australasiana, in the Birds of Australia, part 8. 
This species is abundant, and spread widely over New Holland. It is 
larger than the Otis tarda. A capital error in Gould’s work is the want 
of measurements, although there is plenty of room. 
Fulicari^. — Parra cordifera, from Acapulco, has been 
described by Lesson in the Rev. Zool. p. 135 and 210. A 
drawing of Gallirallus hrachypterus, Lafr., was given in the 
Magas, de Zool. n. 22. 
Leib found the Fulica americana brooding, in very great numbers, 
in the month of June, in the marshes at Lake Erie, in company with the 
Oallimda gaUata, The nest is woven of rushes, without lining, IJ to 
2' in diameter, swimming on the water, and attached to the reeds : the 
eggs, ten to fifteen in number, are oval, greenish-yellow, with small dark 
brown freckles. (Journ. of Philad. viii. 203.) 
Erodii. — Brehm has divided the small German Bitterns 
(Ardea minutd) into three sub-species : — Botaurus minutus, 
pusillus, and melanotus. (Isis, p. 770.) 
Hemiglottides. — Drawings have been given of Platalea 
regia, G., and flavipes, G., in the Birds of Australia, part 7. 
The latter species is remarkable, as it agrees in many respects with 
the white species of Ibis, and accordingly proves, from another source, 
the connection of the Platalea and Ihis, in one family, as asserted by 
Nitzsch. 
Limicol.e. — EurJiinorhynchus griseus, Nilss. (Platalea 
pygmcea, Linn.), has been described, with a plate, by Hart- 
laub, in the Rev. Zool. p. 37. 
Cuvier and Temminck have arranged this bird correctly among the 
Snipes. Its habitat is not Surinam, as asserted by Linnaeus, but Bengal, 
Nordmann has most exactly shown the difference between 
his Glareola melanoptera (which name Fischer wishes to 
change into G. Nordmanni), and the G. torquata. (Bullet, 
de Mosc. 1842, p. 314. tab. 2.) 
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