AVES.' 71; 
Sauakin. Tom. cit. pp. 39^ 40. Extract^ Journ. fiir Orn. 
1B65_, pp. 42-45. 
These observations are of considerable interest^ nearly all the 
species observed in passage being European. The avifauna of 
that part of Nubia lying between Berber on the Nile and Saua- 
kin on the Red Sea is very varied^ and a brief list of the species 
observed by the author is given. 
HeugliNj Th. von. Nachtrage zu den Ornithologischen Berich- 
tenvom Bahr-el-abiad. Journ. fiir Orn. 1865, pp. 98-100. 
This paper contains the description of a Ploceus (which the 
author does not name) akin to, but distinct from, P. ruhigmosus, 
Riipp., and also of a new Cursorius ; to the last are added some 
notes on the four other species known to him. 
Monteiro, J. J. Notes on Birds collected in Benguela. Broc. 
Zool. Soc. 1865, pp. 89-96. 
The seventy species enumerated were collected in 1862 and 
1863 in the coast-region of ^the province, which is, generally 
speaking, dry, barren, and rocky, vegetation being abundant 
only near the few rivers or some twenty to thirty miles towards 
the interior. Some of the species are new, and have been de- 
scribed by Dr. Hartlaub (P. Z. S. 1865, pp. 86-88), who also 
determined the names of the remainder. 
Newton, Alfred. On Two New Birds from the Island of Ro- 
driguez. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, pp. 46-48, pi. i. 
The two birds are Foudia flavicans and Drymoeca (?) rodeHcana* 
. On an apparently undescribed Bird from the Seychelle 
Islands. Ibis, 1865, pp. 331-333, pi. viii. 
The bird is named Copsychus sechellarum. 
. List of Animals collected at Mohambo, Madagascar, by 
Mr. W. T. Gerrardi Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, pp. 832-837. - 
Forty-four species of birds, none of which are new; though 
some are rare, were contained in the collection. 
Newton, Edward. Notes of a Visit to the Island of Rodri- 
guez. Ibis, 1865, pp. 146-154. 
The only two aboriginal land-birds observed proved to be new, 
Foudia flavicans and Drymoeca rodericana. Three bones of the 
extinct Didine species peculiar to the island were also found by 
the author and one of his friends (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, pp. 
199-201). 
ScHLEGEL, H. Contributions h la Faune de Madagascar et des 
lies avoisinantes, d’apres les decouvertes et observations de 
