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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
much) anything that the authors, either jointly or severally, have attempted. 
The American members of the family, so far as the authors are acquainted 
with them, consist of forty-eight species, belonging to ten genera, dis- 
posed in three subfamilies, Itallbue, FuUcince, and Ileliornithince. The list 
of species is synouymalic, descriptive, and geographical, while to nearly 
each genus, or section of a genus, is prefixed a clavis &pecicrmn^' showing 
concisely the diagnostic characters of each species. The subfamily Rallince is 
made to contain five genera, viz. : — llallus with eight species j Aramides with 
seven ; Porzana with eighteen (of which two are new, and one receives a new 
name), arranged under seven sections — Porzana, Rujirallus, Lateriralhis, 
Crybastus, Creciseus, Coturnieops, and (sect, nov.) Neocrex ; Crex and Thyro- 
rkina (gen. nov.) each with one. The Pkilicmce include four genera, Por- 
phyrio and Porphyriops with two species’each, GalUnula with one, and Fidica 
with seven. The IleliornitJdnce are represented only by the species Ileliornis 
fulica (Codd.). 
Rallus aquaticus” from Damaraland (Ibis, 18G8, p. 261) should be li. cce- 
ndescens, as also probably the specimen from Natal {op. cit. 1859, p. 249). 
J. II. Gurney, Ibis, 1868, p, 471. 
PalUna kioloides is figured. II. Schlegel & F. P. L. Pollen, Pech. Faun. 
Madag. pi. 39. 
Fulica chilensis, its head figured, very different from F. stricklandi. P. L. 
Sclater & O. Salvin, P. Z. S. 1868, pp. 176, 177. 
Fidica cormda, P\ yiyautca, F\ ardesiaca, F, armillata, F. frontata, F. leiico- 
pyya, F. amcricana, and P\ leucoptcra, woodcuts of their heads (the first from 
the typo specimen) ; lid. tom. cit. pp. 463-468. The third, fourth, sixth, and 
last figured : lid. Ex. Orn. pis. Ivii.-lx. 
Milne-Edwaiids, a. Mdmoire siir une espece eteinte du genre Fulica qui 
habitait autrefois Tile Maurice. Comptes Rendus, 30 March, 1868, Ixvi. 
pp. 646-650. Reprint of the paper noticed last year (Zool. Rec. iv. pp. 
117-118). Abstract, Rev. Zool. 1868, pp. 147-152 ; F. 0. Noll, Zool. 
Garten, 1868, pp. 280-282. {Cf. Ibis, 1868, p. 482, note.] 
Fhdica ncivtoni[}xi supra], its remains and a restoration of it is figured, with 
F. cridata and F. utra. A. Milne-Edwards, Ois. Foss. Fr. pis. cvii., cviii. 
Gypsornis cuvieri, Pallus eximius, R. major, R. intermedins, R. christii, 
R. heaumonti, R. porzanoides, R. dispar, and R. ci'ex, their remains figured. 
Id. op. cit. pis. ciii.-cv. 
Leguatia {Gallimda) gigantea (Zool. Rec. iii. p. 109), Prof Schlegel’s resto- 
ration of it copied. Am. Nat. 1868, p. 615. 
Porj)hyrio smaragdonotus, Temm., from Natal, is shown to bo different from 
P. madag ascariensis (Lath.). J. II. Gurney, Ibis, 1868, pp. 469, 470. 
Porphyrio codestis is described as a new species from China, differing from 
P. smaragdinus, Temm. (qu. P. indicus, Ilorsf. ?), in having a^purple instead 
of a grey belly, and a black abdomen. R. Swinhoe, tom. cit. pp. 59, 60. 
Porphyrio melanotus (lege melanonotus), a small local variety occurs in the 
Pelew Islands. G. Ilartlaub & 0. Finsch, P. Z. S. 1868, pp. 8, 117. 
Porphyrio martineus and P. parvus, their heads figured. P. L. Sclater & 
O. Salvin, tom. cit. pp. 459, 460. 
Porphyriops leucoptcrus (Zool. Rec, iii. p. 109), its description translated 
intr German ; E. von Martens, 1868, pp. 69, 70. Said to be distinct from 
P, melanops ; P. 4*. Sclater & 0. Salvin, P. Z. S. 1868, p, 175, note, Subse- 
