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/SwiNHOE, Robert. A revised Catalogue of the Birds of China 
and its islands, with descriptions of new species, references 
to former notes, and occasional remarks. P. Z. S. 1871, 
pp. 337-423. 
:-XThis catalogue|containing a revision of the author^s numerous 
detached papers, and embodying the results of his own disco- 
veries and those of Pere Davi^ supplies a great want. EThe 
number of Chinese species is raised to 675, as against 454 in the 
former list (P. Z. S. 1863, pp. 259-339). The^ew genera and 
species^.describ^will he found under FalconidcBy TimaliulcBj Hi- 
rundinid(B, Turdldce, SylviidcBj Motacillidaii Bittidcej Faridce, and 
Alaudidce. 
/ . On four new species of Asiatic Birds [ThirdidcBi Paridce, 
Alaudidce], Ann. N. H. (4) vii. p. 257. 
^Veureaux, J. Note sur les especes nouvelles d^Oiseaux re- 
ceuillies par I’Abbe Armand David dans les montagnes du 
Thibet chinois. N. Arch. Mus. vi. Bull. pp. 33-40, pi. 3., 
vii. pp. 25-64. 
( The first paper is but a slight sketch ; the second gives full 
details of the r-cmarkable discoveries made by this explorer. 
Many new species, belonging to Picidcey Timaliidcej Muscicapido}, 
Tw'didce, Sylviidce, Troglodytidce^ Sittid<Sj ParidiBy FringUlidc^^ 
and Alaudid(S are described, y 
Walden, [Arthur Hay,] Viscount. Observations on Dr. Sto- 
liczka^s Contributions to Malayan Ornithology/^ Ibis, 
1871, pp. 158-177, pi. vi. 
These excellent remarks not only do full justice to Dr. Sto- 
liczka's paper (Zool. Bee. vii. p. 31), but further enhance its 
value by the careful identifications and corrections here given. 
Descriptions of three new species of Asiatic Birds 
[Meliphagidce, Timaliid(Bf Sylviidc^, Ann. N. II. (4) vii. 
pp. 240-242. 
AUSTRALIAN REGION. 
Einsch, O. [See Hartlaub, G.] 
^ARTLAUB, G., & Einsch, O. On a Collection of Birds from 
Savai and Rarotonga Islands in the Pacific. P. Z. S. 1871, 
pp. 21-32, pi. ii. 
Both localities are zoologically almost unknown. LErom the 
first 13 species are described, one being the type of a new genus 
of PallidcB ,* from the second 7, 3 of which (belonging to Mus- 
cicapidaij Sturnidoij and Columbida) are new/ / 
/Hill, E. S. Lord Howe^s Island. S}'dney : 1870. 8vo. 
Not sceji by the Recorder. ( \Cf, Ibis, 1871, p. 443.] j 
