zoological UTEllATUllE. 
Ramsay, E. P. List of Birds received from Port Denison, 
Queensland. Ibis, 1865, pp. 83-87, 
A nominal list of forty-five species, some notes being added 
respecting a few of them. Nectai'inia australis is perhaps the 
most remarkable. 
. On the Nests and Eggs of some New Zealand Birds. 
Ibis, 1865, pp. 154-157. [See ^^Oology.^^] 
. Notes on Birds breeding in the neighbourhood of 
Sydney, Ibis, 1865, pp. 298-306. [See Oology.'’'’] 
■ . Notes upon the Cuckoos found near Sydney, New 
South Wales. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, pp. 460-465. 
The species mentioned are Chalcites luciduSy Cuculus inornatuSy 
and C. cineraceus. Many details of their habits, especially when 
breeding, are given. 
Schlegel, H. De Vogels van Nederlandsch Indie beschreven 
en afgebeeld. Monographie 2, Ijsvogels (Martin-Pecheurs). 
Harlem : 1864. 4to, pp. 68, tabb. 16, figg. 67. 
The first part of this work, forming a monograph of the Pittidce 
of the Dutch Indies, was published in 1863. The second contains 
the Alcedinidce of the same region j and under the heading of 
that family further details will be found. The text is partly in 
Dutch and partly in French, the Revue synoptique^^ of the 
whole being in the latter. The figures, though on a small scale, 
are very beautifully executed. 
Travers, Henry Hammersley. Notes on the Chatham Islands 
(lat. 44° 30' S., long. 175° W.). Proc. Linn. Soc. Botany. 
ix.pp. 135-144. 
While describing the human inhabitants, formation, fauna, and 
flora of the group, the author enumerates the birds found upon the 
two islands which compose it. As may be expected, they are 
all of New Zealand type, though their precise identity with New 
Zealand species is rather inferred than proved. Very curious is 
the reported occurrence there of so many flightless forms, such 
as ApteryXy OcydromuSy and StrigopSy which, are stated to have 
become extinct since the Maori invasion of 1832 or 1835. 
Two species, termed a Pigeon and a Titmouse,'’^ but not 
scientifically named, have made their appearance in the islands, 
and colonized them, at a recent date. The ornithological 
portion of this interesting paper is reprinted, ^Ibis,^ 1866, 
pp. 113-115. 
Wallace, Alfred R. On the Pigeons of the Malay Archi- 
pelago. Ibis, 1865, pp. 365-400, pi. ix. 
This paper is a worthy companion to the author^s treatise on 
