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accordingly the Cuban bird which required a designation. P. L. Sclater <& 
O. Salvin, P. Z. S. 18Q8, pp. 327-329, pi. xxix. 
Tholmptynx cunictilaria, from La Plata, its habits in confinement. P. L. 
Sclater, P. Z. S. 1868, p. 261. 
Glaucidiurn siju, its habits in confinement. C. Wright, Am. Nat. 1868, 
pp. 420-421. 
Sco 2 ^s harharus is a new species from Vera Paz, Guatemala, readily dis- 
tinguishable from every other American Scops, except S. Jiammeola, by its 
small size. From that it is to be distinguished by the less amount of fea- 
thering on the tarsus ; and woodcuts showing the difference are given, as 
well as a list of the seven American species Imown to the authors. It is 
S. Jiammeola, Salvin (Ibis, 1861, p. 365), nec Kaup. P. L. Sclater & 0. 
Salvin, P. Z. S. 1868, pp. 66-68. Both species figured, and a complete list 
of the American species of the genus given. . lid. Ex. Orn. pis. 1., li. 
Scops asio, its breeding-habits. E. A. Samuels, Am. Nat. 1868, pp. 47, 48 j 
A. Fowler, op. cit. p. 109 ; W. Wood, op>. cit. pp. 379, 380. In confinement, 
C. J. Maynard, tom. cit. pp. 73-77. Specifically identical with S. neevia, 
J. A. Allen, tom, cit. 1868, pp. 327-329. The contrary opinion possibly 
true. W. Wood, tom. cit. pp. 370-376. 
Scops zorca is figured. J. Gould, B. Gr. Br. pt. xiii. 
PSITTACI. 
Buxton, C. Acclimatization of Parrots. Zool. S. S. pp. 1395-1401 j Ann. 
& Mag. N. H. 4th ser. ii. pp. 381-386. 
Nearly fifty examples have been at large at Northrepps, in Norfolk ; but the 
species are not precisely named. Some of them have bred. 
Finscii, Otto. Die Papageien, monographisch bearbeitet. Zweiter Band. 
Iliilfte I., IT. Mit 6 Tafeln und Uebersichts-Tabellen zur geogra- 
phischen V erbreitung. Leiden : 1868. Roy. 8vo, pp. 996. 
We last year, at some length, though still imperfectly, spoke (Zool. Record, 
iv. pp. 83-85) of the extraordinary pains bestowed by the author on the first 
volume of this work. The second volume, published in two parts, justifies 
the praise we then awarded to him. The subject has been so thoroughly 
well handled that this monograph must be the text-book for many years ; 
and though we do not altogether agree with Dr. Finsch in his mode 
of classification, we believe we shall be consulting the convenience of 
our readers by adopting in the main his system. We shall still continue to 
regard the Psittaci as forming an order, but the (6) different groups defined 
by the author we shall follow, only raising them from the rank of “ sub- 
families ” to that of families, as under : — Strigopidce *, Plictolophid<x, Aridce*, 
Psittacidce, and Triclioglossidce. The genera composing these groups we named 
last year, and need only remark that, instead of Coryllis, Finsch, we shall 
continue to use the older name Loricxdus, “ barbarous " though it be. In these 
26 genera Dr. Finsch places 364 good species f, besides taking notice of 41 
^ To use Stringopidee and Sittacidee, as no doubt the author would have 
us do, seems to us to savour too much of proeterpurism. 
t That is to say, 351 in the body of the work, and 3 more in the Supple- 
ment, which is brought down to 1st June, 1868. 
