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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
1868, pp. 363, 364 j P. Z. S. 1868, pp. 630, 531. Particulars of its origin : 
C. Darwin, Anim. and PI. under Domestic, i. pp. 290-292. 
Pavo cristatus, its variability under domestication. Id. loc. cit. 
Meleagris mexicana [sc. gallopavo ^], its variability under domestication, 
C. Darwin, Anim. and PI. under Domestic, i. pp. 292-294. Figured, D. G. 
Elliot, B. N. Am. pt. x. 
Numida malaagris, Linn., its probable descent from N.ptilovhgnchus, liicht., 
and variation under domestication. C. Darwin, Anim. and PI. under Do- 
mestic. i. p. 294. 
Numida , a second species (besides N. tiarata), is found in Madagascar, 
which, according to Capt. W. F. W. Owen (Narrat. Voy. Afr. Arab. & 
Madag. 1833, ii. p. 36), has a long tail. P. L. Sclater, Ibis, 1868, pp. 601, 
602. 
Tetraonid^e. 
Ptmiistes sclatcri (Zool. Bee. iv. p. 116) occurs at Iluilla, West Africa. 
J. V. Barboza du Bocage. Jorn. Sc. Lisboa, 1868, p. 49. 
Caccabis grceca, C. saxatilis, and C. chuhar : the second, from Palestine, 
probably not specifically identical with the others. II. B. Tristram, Ibis, 
1868, pp. 213, 214. 
Caccabis rubra is figured. J. Gould, B. Gr. Br. pt. xiii. 
Francolinus vulgaris and F. pieties, their geographical distribution in India. 
W. T. Blauford, J. A. S. B. xxxvi. (1867) p. 200. 
Malacoturnix supercUiosus (Zool. Bee. iv. p. 116) is figured. J. Gould, 
B. As. pt. XX. 
Syncccus australis and S. chinensis are figured. S. Diggles, Orn. Austral. 
pt. XX. 
Ortyx virginianus has occurred in Kent. J. W. Stephenson, Zool. S. S. 
p. 1059. \_Qu. imported?] 
Tetrao urog alius, female in male plumage, and hybrid between the male 
of that species and the female of T. tetrix, described. V. Fatio, Bull. Soc. 
Vaudoiso Sc. Nat. (1868) ix. pp. 690-698. 
Ponasia umbdlus, its habits. A. Fowler, Am. Nat. 1868, pp. 366-367. 
PTEROCLIDiE. 
The birds forming this family are erected into a group under the name of 
PteroclomorpJuB, coordinate with the Alectoromorphce. T. H. Huxley, P. Z. S, 
1868, pp. 302, 303. 
Syrrhaptes paradoxus, its occurrence in Venetia in 1863-4 : E. de Betta, 
Atti deir Istituto Yenet. tom. x. (23 March and 24 April 1865). In Italy : 
T. Salvador!, Atti Accad. Sc. Torino, 1868, pp. 293, 294. In Livonia : A. v. 
Middendorfi*, Sib. Beise, Bd. iv. Th. 2. Lief. 1, p. 1026, note. 
TuRNICIDiE. 
The birds forming this family' are erected into a group under the name of 
Turnicimorphee, coordinate with the Alectoromorphce and Pteroclomorphoe. 
T. H. Huxley, P. Z. S. 1868, pp. 303, 304. 
* It seems to us that the name gallopavo must be retained for the tame 
race, and consequently for the species whence it has sprung, having been 
applied by Linna3us (S. N. 12th ed. i. p. 268) to the form domesticated in 
Sweden (Faun. Suec. no. 198). 
