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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
Perdiv saxatilis and P. petrosa. M. Olpli-Gaillard’s paper on hybrids be- 
tween these two species (Zool. Eecord, ii. p. 12C) reprinted, R. Z. 1866, pp. 
78-80. Further remarks on this paper, in which it is suggested that P. 
syriaca [cujusP], and not P. saxatilis, was one of the parents. Barth^lemy 
Lapommeraje, tom. cit. pp. 271, 272. Notice of other hybrids, G. Lunel, Bull. 
Soc. Orn. Suisse, 1866, p. 110. 
Perdix montana : observations on this supposed species lead to the opinion 
that it is but a strongly marked variety of P. cinerea. W. Hartmann, Zoolog. 
G ai ten, 1866, pp. 332-335. 
Perdix cinerea is said to occur in Northern Spain. Lord Lilford, Ibis, 
1866, p. 384. 
Coturnix fornasinii, Sig. Bianconi’s description (Zool. Record, ii. p. 126) 
reprinted. Gu^rin-Meneville, R. Z. 1866, p. 316. 
Lophortyx yamheli, observations on its habits from field-notes. E. Cones, 
Ibis, 1866, pp. 46-55. The young described, Idcniy Proc. Acad. Philad. 1866, 
p. 94. Its range inosculates with that of L. calif arnica about the sink ” of the 
Mojave River. Idenif Ibis, 1866, p. 265. 
PTEROCLIDiE. 
Syrr1uq)tes ptaradoxus, a single example frequently observed in October 
1865 (!) at Kalksburg in Lower Austria. Victor von Tschusi {fide Prof. 
Diclitl), Zoolog. Garten, 1866, p. 390. Not polygamous, — Quistorp, J. f. 0. 
1866, p. 144. Figured ( d and $ ), IT. Stevenson, B. Norf. pi. ii. 
Ptcrocles alchata has bred in the Zoological Gardens, and the young is 
figured. A. D. Bartlett, P. Z. S. 1866, p. 78, pi. ix. fig. 2. 
TuRNICIDiE. 
Tarnix sylvatica is supposed to have occurred again in England. J. Gould, 
P. Z. S. 1866, p. 210. 
Megapodiidaj. 
Megapodius tumidns, head figured. S. Biggies, Om. Austral, part i. 
Tinamidas. 
The entirely Struthious structure of the skull in this family is again (Zool. 
Record, i. p. 59) strongly insisted on. W. K. Parker, Phil. Trans. 1866, 
pp. 113-183, (See under the heading “ Anatomy and Physiology.”) 
GRALLiE. 
Rallidas. 
SciiLEGEL, H. Museum eVHistoire Naturellc dcs P«Tys-Ras. 
S’"® Livraison. Ralli. Leyde : 1866. Royal 8vo, pp. 77-80. 
Completes the portion notieed last year (Zool. Reeord, ii. 
p. 128), and contains an enumeration of about eighty specimens 
received since that was printed. 
has occurred near Cape York, North Australia. J. Gould, 
P. Z.S. 1866, p. 218. 
Pallina pcecilcptera is anew species from the Feejees, to be distinguished at 
first sight by its ferruginous remiges, marked with narrow black bars, the first 
and second having the outer webs blackish, G. Hartlaub, Ibis, 1866, 
pp. 171, 172. 
