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former, before mistaken for Tw'nix ocellata, is most nearly allied to T. pugnax ; 
the latter, hitherto confounded with two or three other species, is very similar 
to T. hlanfordi. R. Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1871, pp. 401, 402. 
MEGAPODIIDiE. 
Talcgalla lathami,iioiQ^ on its breeding'. J. M. Comply, Bull. Soc. Acclim. 
viii. pp. 528-636. 
TiNAMIDiE. 
Crypturus. The characters of its egg-shell, as affording evidence of its 
systematic place, W. von Nathusius, Z. wiss. Zool. 1871, pp. 330-366. 
GRALLiE. 
RALLIDiE. 
Corethrura imularis (Zool. Rec. vii. p. 60), ^ and 5 , figured. R. B. Sharpe, 
P. Z. S. 1871, p. 316, pi. xxxii. 
Rallicula^ gen. nov., the type being 
R. rtibra, sp. n., from New Guinea. H. Schlegel, N. T. D. iv. p. 56. 
Rorzana [olim Corethrura] guatemalensk (Zool. Rec. ii. p. 129) is not P. 
concolor : G. N. Lawrence, Ibis, 1871, p. 370. Hardly separable : O. Salvin, 
oc. cit. 
Rorphyrio smaragdonotus bteeding in confinement. A. E. Brehm, J. f. 0. 
1871, pp. 34-39. 
RareudiasteSy gen. nov., probably flightless, the type being 
P. pacificus, sp. n., from Savai. G. Hartlaub & O. Finsch, P. Z. S. 1871, 
pp. 26, 26, pi. ii. 
Fidica dojardini, sp.n., foss., founded on the lower half of a femur from the 
Crag. J. P. van Beneden, Bull. Ac. Belg. xxxii. p. 218, pi. fig. 8. 
Aptomis defossoVy sp. n., from the Middle Island of New Zealand. R. Owen, 
Tr. Z. S. vii. pp. 353-366, pis. 40, 41, 43, 44. 
Aptornis [olim Dinornis] otidiformisy pelvis figured. Id. tom. cit. pp. 
366-369, pi. 42, figs. 1-3, pi. 43, figs. 1-4. 
Notornis, pelvis and femur figured. Id. tom. cit. pp. 369-371, 373, 374, 
pi. 42, figs. 6, 6, pi. 43, fig. 9. 
ScOLOPACID^. 
Scolopax rosenhergi, ^^sp. n.,” from New Guinea. H. Schlegel, N. T. D. iv. 
pp. 64, 66. Identical with S. rochtisseni (Zool. Rec. ii. p. 130). Id. loc. cit. 
Gallinago heterocercay sp. n., from the Baikal. J. Cabanis, J. f. O. 1870, 
p. 236 ; L. Taczanowski, tom. cit. p. 311. 
Scolopax major and S. golUnagOy their non-vocal breeding-notes. V. 
Russow, SB. Ges. Dorp. 23 Feb. 1870. 
Scolopax sabiniiy recent specimen exhibited. J. E. Harting, P. Z. S. 1871, 
p. 39. 
Macrorhamphus griseus, its egg. A. Newton, tom. cit. p. 66. 
Tringa bonapartii near Barnstaple : M. A. Mathew, Zool. s. s. p. 2443. At 
Eastbourne ; B. Bates, tom. cit. p. 2444. 
Actodromas bairdiy its egg. A. Newton, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 67 
