AVES. 
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Liais, E. On the Flight of Birds and Insects. Ann. & Mag. 
Nat. Hist. 3rd ser. xv. pp. 155-158. (Translated from 
Comptes BenduSj 1864^ p. 907.) 
The author considers three cases : — (1) Flight without loco- 
motion ; (2) Flight with locomotion and heating of the wings ; 
(3) Flight without beating of the wings^ or Gliding Flight. This 
third mode presupposes a previous locomotion_, produced by beat- 
ing of the wings. The whole matter seems to be left very nearly 
as it was before. 
Milne-Edwards, H. Rapport sur quelques acquisitions nou- 
velles faites par la galerie ornithologique du Museum. 
Nouv. Arch, du Mus. Bulletin^ pp. 75-78^ pis. iii.-v. 
This report contains an indication of a new species of Foly- 
plectrum, and descriptions and figures of five other new species, 
Gecinus erythropygius, Capito qidnticolor, and Butlirmpis ed- 
wardsi by Mr. D. G. Elliot, and Turdus goudoti and Sitiavillosa 
by M. Jules Verreaux. 
PaHker, W. K. Preliminary Notes on some Fossil Birds from 
the Zebbug Cave, Malta. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, p. 752. 
The specimens found are assigned to Cygnus falconeri (a 
gigantic new species), C. olorl, C. beivicM?, and a Bernicla or 
large Anas, 
Pelzeln, August von. Reise der osterreichischen Fregatte 
Novara um die Erde in den Jahrcn 1857, 1858, 1859, 
u. s. w. Zoologischer Theil. Erster Band. Vogel. Wien: 
1865. 4to, pp. 176, tabb. 6. 
The course of the Austrian frigate ^ Novara,^ on this voyage, 
was from the Mediterranean to Rio J aneiro, touching at Madeira, 
thence to the Cape of Good Hope and St. PauFs Island ; after 
that to Ceylon, the Nicobars, Malay Archipelago, and China, 
then touching at the Ladrone and Caroline Islands (Puynipet) 
to Australia and New Zealand ; thence across the Pacific, visit- 
ing the Society Islands, Pitcairn, MitchelFs Islands, and Juan 
Fernandez, to Valparaiso, and so home round Cape Horn. Col- 
lections were not only made throughout this long voyage by the 
zoologist on board, Herr Zelebor, but at several of the places 
visited collections more or less extensive were also procured from 
residents interested in science ; so that the present work con- 
tains enough to make the cruise of the ^ Novara^ for ever 
memorable in the annals of zoology. In the introduction the 
author suggests the expediency of forming the ocean south of 
the tropic of Capricorn into a new zoological region, in addition 
to the well-known six shown to exist by Mr. Sclater (Prbc. 
Linn. Soc., Zoology, ii. p. 130), and adopted in this ^ Record,^ 
