AVES. 
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in the ^Vcrslagen cn Mededeelingen der K. Akademie van 
Wefcenscliappen^ of Amsterdam for 1857, in wliicli the author, 
on the evidence of Leguat and Du Bois, endeavours to prove 
the former existence of two large species of Birds, which he 
considers to have belonged to the RallidcB, and named Gallinula 
(Leguatia) gigantea and Porphyrio [Notornis ?) cairulescens. 
The French translator adds (p. 42, note) the interesting infor- 
mation that the journal kept in Beunion from 1669 to 1672, 
which had hitherto been only known by a MS. copy in the 
possession of the Zoological Society of London, without the 
authors name, was the work of one Du Bois, and was published 
in Paris in 1674. 
ScLATER, P. L. Beport on Birds eollected at Windvogelberg, 
South Africa, by Captain G. E. Bulger. Proc. Zool. Soc. 
1866, pp. 21-23. 
The species, forty-four in number, were determined by Dr. Ilartlaub ; only 
one of them has proved to be new, Ilemiptenjx immaculata. To the list is 
prefixed Capt. Bulger’s account of the locality where his specimens were col- 
lected. 
INDIAN BEGION. 
Beavan, B. C. Extracts from a letter. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1866, 
pp. 2-4. 
This paper contains a few zoological observations made on a trip from 
Moulmein to Zwagaben, of which most are ornithological. 
. Letter on the animals introduced into the Andaman 
Islands. Ibis, 1866, pp. 419, 420. 
*. Notes on some Birds of Boss Island. Il)is, 1866, 
p>p. 220-222. 
The island is one of the Andaman cluster, many of the species introduced 
are indicated. 
Blyth, E. The Ornithology of India. — A Commentary on 
Br. Jerdon’s ^ Birds of India.^ Ibis, 1866, pp. 225-258, 
336-376. 
The first of these articles contains a few generalizations, and 
then proceeds to consider the birds of prey mentioned in Dr. 
Jerdon^s work, on which the author of the paper (himself one 
of the highest authorities on Indian Ornithology) remarks that 
little seems to be needed in the way of emendation. The 
second article treats of the remainder of the species noticed in 
the first volume of the ^ Birds of India.^ It would be utterly 
impossible to give, within any reasonable space, an abstract of 
Mr. BlytVs Commentary ; ” for his extraordinary powers of re- 
ference and illustration are indulged without limit. No species 
appear to be described as absolutely new ; but several are added 
* Errore typoyrap^l^co,^^ll^\9^x^'’ 
