AVES. 
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SwiNHOE, n. Letter on Lormosan Ornithology. Ibis^ 1866, 
pp. 121-123. 
. A voice on Ornithology from Formosa. Op. cit. pp. 129 
-138, pi. V. 
This contains comments on a paper of Mr. Blyth’s (Zool. Kecord, ii. 
pp. 72, 73), and a very great variety of observations on difFerent Formosan or 
Chinese birds. Turdus alhiceps, Swiuh., forms the subject of the plate. 
. Ornithological Notes from Formosa. Op. cit. pp. 292- 
316, 392-406, pis. ix., xi. 
After a few comments on various statements in preceding 
numbers of ^ The Ibis,^ the author in the first of these articles 
proceeds to notice a collection of Birds from the Tamsuy Moun- 
tains, which contained a few species he had not hitherto met 
with in the island, and then describes in great detail six appa- 
rently new ones. (See Fringillidoi, Falco7iid<2, Faridm, Thnaliidce, 
and Columbida:.) The plates represent Suthora bulomachus, sp. n., 
and Cyomis vivida. In the second article Mr. Swinhoe continues 
his multifarious ijotes, in the course of which he describes four 
more' new species (see SylvHdae, Striyidcs, and Analidai ) . 
Walden, Arthur [Hay] Viscount. Notes on Birds collected 
in Tenasserim and in the Andaman Islands. Proc. Zool. 
Soc. 1866, pp. 537-556. 
Of the former, thirty-five species (one of which, belonging to 
Sylviiddc, is new), and of the latter, six speeies are noticed at con- 
siderable length, great attention being paid to their synonymy 
and bibliography. The collections were formed by Capt.Beavan, 
AUSTRALIAN REGION. 
Buller, Walter. Essay on the Ornithology of New Zealand. 
Dunedin : 1865. 8vo, pp. 20. 
This is one of the prize-essays of the New Zealand Exhibition 
of 1865, and is printed by the Commissioners. Its chief object 
seems to be that of giving unscientific persons a general idea of 
the peculiarities of the New Zealand ornis, and in this it suc- 
ceeds well. Nine species from some one or other of the group 
of islands are indicated as new; and of these Anth(yrnis awriocultty 
Gerygone assimilis, Mimiis [?] carunculatus , Creadion cinereurnj 
Nestor superbus, Rallus featherstonii, and Podiceps hectori are 
described. Strix haasti and an unnamed Lestris are also men- 
tioned, but not described. The number of New Zealand birds 
is put at 133 : besides the flightless species, several others seem 
to be vanishing ; among these Cotm'nix novx-zealandiee is espe- 
cially mentioned. {Of. Ibis, 1867, pp. 131-133.) 
Diggles, Sylvester. The Ornithology of Australia. Queens- 
land. Imp. 4to. Parts I.-X., pis. 
We do not know when the publication of this work was com- 
