53 
ZOOLOGICAL LITEllATUllE. 
Bamsay, E. V. Letter on Australian Ornithology. Ibis, 1868, 
pp. 231-233. 
On the breeding-habits, nest, eggs, and young of Donacola 
castaneothorax. 
. Notes on Birds breeding in the neighbourhood of Sydney. 
Tom cit. pp. 271-280. [See Oology.^^] 
. On certain New and Bare species of Birds found at Bock- 
{ ingham Bay, Queensland. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1868, pp. 381-388. 
Forty species are enumerated, of which five (belonging to FaU 
conidcBj CaprimulgidcOy Menurida, and Meliphagidce) are supposed 
to be new, but the two first are left unnamed j a new genus (of 
Muscicapidoi) is also recommended. 
Wallace, Alfred B. On the Baptorial Birds of the Malay 
Archipelago. Ibis, 1868, pp. 1-27, pi. i. 
. Corrections of, and additions to, the Catalogue of the 
Baptorial Birds of the Malay Archipelago. Tom. cit. pp. 
215, 216. 
The first of these papers is of a piece with the author’s former 
monographs of the Psittaci and Columbce of the same part of the 
world (Zool. Bee. i. pp. 53-55, ii. pp. 76-78) ; but the subject, or 
some portion of it, having been lately handled by Prof. Schlegel 
and Dr. Kaup (Zool. Becord, iii.p.58,iv.pp. 81,82), Mr. Wallace’s 
treatment of it is necessarily more critical. Furthermore, his scope 
is larger than that of either of the zoologists named. Eighty-seven 
species are enumerated, many of which would no doubt by some 
authors be only regarded as local forms. Tlie Vulturidca are 
entirely absent. The average number of species of Falconidcs 
found in an island is ten, of Strigidce three; Java, however, pos- 
sesses seventeen of the former and eight of the latter. Taking 
the groups of islands, the number diminishes pretty regularly 
from west to east ; yet, owing to the richness of the Celebes as 
compared with the Philippine group (as at present known), that 
part of the archipelago which, according to our arrangement, falls 
to the Indian Begion furnishes fewer species than the part which is 
more strictly Australian, the proportion being forty-four to fifty- 
eight. Celebes presents, as usual, some striking peculiarities, 
many of its species, though of difterent generJi, having a similar 
style of coloration. Though this paper is elaborated with its au- 
thor’s customary care, including a synonymatic list, field-notes, 
and geographical table, a supplement was shortly after required, 
wherein the author, besides making a few minor correetiqns, adds 
three other species to his catalogue, and throws some doubt on one 
{Spizaetus nanus) which he had just before described and figured 
as new, [See Accipitiies.”] 
