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of the common European breed ! A. Vinson, Bull. SoC. Imp. d’Acclimat. 
1868, pp. 626, 627. [Qu. Anm mcUeri (Zool. Rec, i. p. 94) P] 
Atx sponsa, the manner in which the yOung reach the water. A* von 
Ilomeyer, J, f. 0, 1868, pp. 356, 357. 
Chaulelasmus streperus is figured. J. Gould, B. Gr. Br. pt. xiii. 
Spatula rhynchotis is figured. S. Biggies, Orn. Austral, pt. xvii. 
Hetermetta (Zool. Rec. iii. p. 112), the characters of the genus translated 
into German. E. von Martens, J. f. O. 1868, p. 67. 
Erismatura vittata, Philippi (Arch. f. Naturg. 1860, p. 26), is, as has been 
already suggested by Mr. Sclater (P. Z. S. 1867, pp. 335, 336), only the 
young oiE. ferrugiiiea. R. A. Philippi, P. Z. S. 1868, p. 631. 
Fuligula 7'ujina, its occurrence in Somerset. G. F. Mathew, Zool. S. S. 
p. 1098 ; in Norfolk, H. Stevenson, tom. cit. p. 1128. 
Larid^e. 
Earns catms, further account of it (Zool. Rec. iv. pp. 122), It. Blalm- 
Knox, Zool. S. S. pp. 1076-1088. 
Earns hutchinsi, Richards, is boliovod to bo a good species. E. Coucs, 
Proc. Essex Inst. v. pp. 68, 69. Figured, with X. hrachyrhynchus. B. G. 
Elliot, B. N. Am. pt. xii. 
Rissa kotzehui and R. nivm are figured. Id. op. cit. pt. xi. 
Earm minutus occurred in England unusually often in 1868, chiefly in the 
autumn. J. H. Gurney, jun., Zool. S. S. pp. 1295, 1379, 1424, 1462, 1482 ‘ 
G. B. Ashmead, tom. cit. p. 1462. 
Xema sabinii, its occurrence in Bublin Bay and in county Bowii. H. 
Blake-Knox, Zool. S. S. p. 1099. 
a description of its breeding-place (the so-called “ Wide- 
awake Fair ”) at Ascension. R. M. Sperling, Ibis, 1868, pp. 286-288. 
Stei'nula halcenarum^ Strickl. (Contr. Orn. 1862, p. 160), has occurred at 
Table Bay. E. L. Layard, Ibis, 1868, p. 248. 
Ste7'nula jerdoni is the name proposed for a bird from Burmah should it 
prove distinct from S. minuta (ex India). It may, however, be S. orientalis 
(Licht.). Sterna mnotata, from the same country, is described as a neW 
species with a position between Gelochelidon and Onychoprion. R. 0. Bea- 
van, Ibis, 1868, pp. 403, 404. 
IIydrocliclido7i nigra, II. leucoptera, and II. leucopa7'ia are figured. J. 
Gouid, B. Gr. Br. pt. xiv. 
pROCELLARIIDiE. 
Giglioli, Enrico, & Salvadori, Thoivimaso. Nuove specie dl Procellaridi 
raccolte durante il viaggio fatto intorno al mondo negli anni 1866, 1866, 
1867, 1868 dalla pirocorvetta italiana Magenta. Atti Soc. Ital. Sc. Nat. 
vol. xi. fasc. iii. 16 Sept. 1808. [English version (which was first ac- 
tually printed). Ibis, 1809, pp. 61-08.] 
Four species, and perhaps a fifth, are described as new. They are : — 
AEstrelata [lege (Esti'elata'] magentce, from the Pacific between lat. 26° and 
39° and long. 88° and 125° W., allied to Procella7'ia 7'ost7'ata j 
[lege (E.'\ ar7ninjoniana from near Trinity Island in the South Atlantic, 
having many affinities with P. neglecta, Schlegel, and being also allied to P. 
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