AVES. 
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Heuglin, T. von. Ornithologische Miscellen aus Central- 
Africa. Joiirn. f. Orn. 1864^ pp. 241-276. 
This long paper is full of a variety of information coneerning 
the ornithology of the Djour country, lying, we believe, south 
’ of the Bahr-el-Gazal ; and a good many species are described in 
it by the author as new, some absolutely, others provisionally, 
while particulars of several more supposed to have been pre- 
viously discovered by him are also given. The majority of these 
perhaps will eventually prove to have been before made known 
by other explorers ; for the author^s long absence in Africa has 
hindered him from becoming aware of the labours of other 
naturalists, and his acquaintance with their works, as was some 
years ago remarked by Dr. Hartlaub (Berichtu. s. w. der Vogel, 
1856, p. 38), is limited. 
Heuglin, T. von. Ueber Alcedinen und Meropiden Nordost- 
Afrika^s. Journ. f. Orn. 1864, pp. 329-336. 
Twelve species of the former and ten of the latter are enu- 
merated, and notes respecting them subjoined. None of them 
are described as new. ' 
Kirk, John. On the Birds of the Zambesi E,egion of Eastern 
Tropical Africa. Ibis, 1864, pp. 307-339. 
One hundred and fifty species are enumerated, and interest- 
ing notes on nearly all of them are appended, making this paper 
a most instructive one on the ornithology of the little-known 
region explored by the author. 
ScLATER, P. L. On the Birds collected by Captain J. H. Speke 
during the East African Expedition. Proc. Zool. Soc. 
1864, pp. 106-115. 
About 70 specimens, representing 62 species, were brought home 
by Captain Speke ; and the collection is of value as being from 
a country of which we have previously had no ornithological 
knowledge whatever, though it is hardly extensive enough to 
allow of deductions from it as to the general character of the 
avifauna of the region between Bogamogo opposite Zanzibar 
and Gondokoro on the Nile where it was formed. Five new 
species seem to have been discovered by Captain Speke, four of 
whicli have been already described by Dr. Hartlaub (P. Z. S. 
1863, pp. 105, 106), viz. Brady ornis speldi, Dryoscojms funebris, 
D. hamatus, and Vidua eques. The fifth is now described by 
Dr. Sclater as Psalidoprocne albiceps (p. 108) and figured 
(pi. xiv.) . The greater part of the species are such as have been 
already noticed as East- African, a few more Southern forms are 
intermixed. Captain Speke has added such notes as he was able 
concerning each. Obs. The so-called Cosmetornis spekiV* 
figured in Captain Speke^s ^Discovery of the Sources of the 
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