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ZOOLOGICAL LITEllATUKE. 
MM. Fran9ois Pollen et M. D.-C. van Dam. Nederl. Tijdschr. 
Dierk. 1865, pp. 73-89. 
The author gives an account of some of the more interesting 
of the specimens sent home by the two travellers named from 
Reunion, Mayotte, the north-west of Madagascar, and the islands 
of Nossi-be and Nossi-faly, which account is to be taken in 
connexion with M. Pollen^s Enumeration des animaux 
vertebres de Madagascar contained in the same jom’ual for 
1863 (pp. 277-345). Prof. Schlegel describes as new species 
Nisus brutuSj Noctua pollenij Xenopirostris damiy JDicrurus 
waldeniy Zosterops flavifi'onSy Pollen (7iec Latham), and Columba 
polleni. He considers Tinnunculus newtoni to be identical with 
T. punctatuSj and Tchiti'ea mutata, T. pretiosuy and T. holosericea 
to be synonymous, and the Madagascar Pigeons, which have been 
distributed under several genera, Funingus, AlectrocenaSy and 
Erythrcenay to belong strictly to the genus Ptilopus (qu. Ptilo^ 
nopus?). (Cf. Ibis, 1866, pp. 210 & 211.) 
ScLATER, P. L. Description of a New Species of Passerine Bird 
from Madagascar. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, pp. 326, 327, 
pi. xiii. 
This bird is the type of a new genus, Hylophorba, belonging to 
the family 3fuscicapidce, and is named H. ruticilla. 
INDIAN REGION. 
Reavan, R. C. Indian Ornithological Notes, chiefly on the 
Migration of Species. Proc. Zool. Soc. I865jpp. 690-695. 
This paper contains records of very numerous observations 
made at Barrackpore, near Calcutta, between July 28th and 
November 21st, 1864, of which it would be almost impossible to 
give an abstract. 
-- — . Notes on various Indian Birds. Ibis, 1865, pp. 400- 
423. 
The species noticed are some of those which occur around 
Darjeeling, in the Maunbhoom district and near Barrackpore. Of 
the physical features of the Maunbhoom district the author gives 
a rapid sketch. No new species are described, but, following the 
arrangement of Dr. Jerdon^s work, nearly one hundred are re- 
marked upon. 
Blyth, Edward. A few Identifications and Rectifications of 
Synonymy. Ibis, 1865, pp. 27-50. 
The birds to which these multitudinous remarks apply are 
chiefly the types of Horsfield^s well-known paper on the ornitho- 
logy of Java (Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 133) many of which arc 
