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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
usually considered distinct. No new ones appear to be de- 
scribed. 
Wallace, A. R. On the Parrots of the Malayan Region, &c, 
Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864, pp. 272-295. 
This paper has been already fully noticed among the publica- 
tions relating to the ^Australian Region,^ to which from its 
contents it seemed properly to belong, but as it is one of very 
great importance, we again refer to it here that it may not 
escape the attention of our readers. 
Bernstein, H. A. Beschouwingen en Opmerkingen over H, 
von Rosenberg's Overzigt der Papegaaisoorten, in den In- 
dischen Archipel. Nederl. Tydschr. Dierk. 1864, pp. 325- 
328. Reprinted from Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Ind. part xxvii. 
The author of course had not seen Mr. Wallace's remarkable 
paper on the same subject, just cited. Herr vop Rosenberg's 
Review appeared in the ^ Journal fur Ornithologie ' (1862, 
pp. 59-68) . 
PLYCTOLOPHIDiE. 
Cacatua ducorpsi, Sclater ” (P. Z, S. 1802, p. 141, pi. xiv.), is not C. du- 
corpsi, Hombron et Jacquinot. It is now proposed to be called C. ophthalmica. 
It is larger, with the crest entirely lemon-coloured, and has a blue naked skin 
surrounding the eye. The author adds a diagnostic list of the thirteen known 
species of Cacatua, and a figure of the true C. ducorpsi is given (pi, x^di.) — 
the new species, C. ophthalmica, having been mongly figured under that name, 
as quoted above. P. L. Sclater, P. Z, S. 1804, pp. 187-189. 
Cacatua cristatella is a new species from Northern Gilolo, similar to 
C. cristata, but, as shown by the dimensions given, much smaller, and with 
a red instead of an olive iris. A. R. Wallace, P. Z. S. 1804, pp. 279-280. 
PLATYCERCIDiE. 
Pyrrhulopsis splendens. A living specimen had been obtained from the 
Feejee Islands, but died on the voyage to England. Dr. Sclater adds an 
enumeration of the other species of the group. P. Z. S. 1804, p. 158. 
Platycercus personatus is not the young of P. splendens, but a very distinct 
species. G. Hartlaub, Ibis, 1864, p. 232. 
Strigopid.®. 
Strigops hahroptilus. Careful and interesting observations on the habits of 
this very curious form are recorded. Julius Haast, Ibis, 1864, pp. 340-346. 
(Translated from the Verh. Zool.-Bot. Gesellsch. Wien, 10 Oct. 1863.) 
PsiTTACIDiE. 
PhcBOcephalus fuscicapiUus, the most common PaiTot in East Tropical Africa j 
P. levaillanti, a much rarer species on the Zambesi than the last-named. 
J. Kirk, Ibis, 1804, p. 329. 
